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🎺 Old wind instrument 🍦 Italian pastry or ice cream
cornetto

cornetto

4.6
An Italian pastry like a croissant often filled with cream or jam and also a popular ice cream cone
  • noun
  • /kɔrˈnɛtoʊ/
translation icon : corneto
  • It tastes to me exactly like the really strong bit of a strawberry cornetto when you hit a lot of strawberry.

And then we had a Strawberry Cornetto Mcflurry.

Examples

  • Every morning, I pick up a cornetto from the café and savor it with my coffee.

  • And then we had a Strawberry Cornetto Mcflurry.

    Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum

  • I'm partial to the cornetto and cappuccino in Italy for breakfast.

    Blog text (17)

  • - Cornetto.

    Shaun of the Dead (2004)

  • I enjoy a cornetto filled with vanilla cream for dessert.

  • In Italy, you can find a delicious cornetto with chocolate filling at nearly every pastry shop.

Synonyms

ice cream cone
vscornetto
16 1.0

A baked cone-shaped wafer that holds ice cream

usually means a filled croissant-like pastry rather than a container for dessert

How Sweet

eclair
7 3.4
cornetto
4.6
danish
18 1.8
croissant
47 2.5

Surface Forms

cornetto singular
cornettos plural

Morphology

cornetto = cornet (opaque) = cornet + etto

Although historically 'cornetto' means 'little horn' (referring to shape), modern pastry/brand meanings are not predictably derived from 'cornet' for most learners.

Etymology

Cornetto for the pastry comes from Italian meaning 'little horn', from the Latin cornu 'horn', because the pastry is rolled into a horn shape like a small croissant. That's why the same name fits both the cone-shaped ice cream and the sweet, horn-shaped pastry.