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Message:: [QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2806139, member: 83956"]I don’t have a Latin dictionary at hand, but I think I’ve figured it out from this online Lewis & Short entry for cornu: cornū, ūs … I Lit., a hard and generally crooked growth upon the head of many mammiferous animals (very freq. in all periods and species of composition), ...Of the antlers of a stag, Ov. M. 3, 194; 10, 111; Verg. A. 10, 725 al.: Cornu Copiae (less correctly, but freq. in late Lat., as one word, Cornūcōpĭae, and twice Cornūcōpĭa, ae, f., Amm. 22, 9, 1; 25, 2, 3), acc. to the fable, the horn of the goat Amalthea placed in heaven, Greek Κέρας Ἀμαλθείας (v. Amalthea), the emblem of fruitfulness and abundance, Plaut. Ps. 2, 3, 5; Gell. 14, 6, 2; cf. Hor. C. 1, 17, 16; id. C. S. 60; id. Ep. 1, 12, 29; Ov. M. 9, 88.— As two words, cornu copiae, the “copiae” would be in the genitive case, with the calque translation of “horn of plenty.” So I think where I see a plural “cornucopiae,” the RIC editors see “cornu copiae,” but just squish the two words together. So really, it’s not a plural exactly, but a one-word coupling of a nominative (cornu) and genitive (copiae). If anyone has a bit of Latin, does that make sense?[/QUOTE]