Cornet vs Cornetto - What's the difference?
cornet | cornetto |
A musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat.
A piece of paper twisted to be used as a container.
A pastry shell to be filled with ice-cream, hence (UK) an ice cream cone.
(obsolete) A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
* Clarendon
A kind of organ stop.
The white headdress worn by the (Sisters of Charity).
(obsolete) The standard flown by a cavalry troop.
(historical) The fifth commissioned officer in a cavalry troop, who carried the colours (equivalent to the ensign in infantry).
(musici) A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
As nouns the difference between cornet and cornetto
is that cornet is a musical instrument of the brass family, slightly smaller than a trumpet, usually in the musical key of B-flat while cornetto is a trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.cornet
English
(wikipedia cornet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) cornet, diminutive of a popular reflex of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- A body of five cornets of horse.