cuckold
A cuckold is used to describe a husband whose wife has cheated on . The associated phrase that a betrayed husband had "horns" placed on him, ie that he was a "horned one", can probably be traced back to the castration of roosters ( capons ) that was customary in the past : the castrated roosters were identified by their spurs cut off and placed in the comb, where they grew into a kind of horns.
The use of the word “capon” in the sense of adulterer and coupler is documented for the High Middle Ages .
In modern German language of the man, the one intimate contact with his wife or partner with another man will wish , with the English loan word cuckold , referred to as the word in English is also used both for that than for the dupes.
literature
- Cuckold . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Ed.): German legal dictionary . tape 4 , booklet 9 (edited by Hans Blesken and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1944 and 1951).
Web links
Wiktionary: cuckold - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Schmachthagen: Why horns were put on the cuckold In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 22, 2019 (accessed on May 3, 2020).