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The name cornet derives from corne, meaning horn, itself from Latin cornus.

While not musically related, instruments of the Zink family ( which includes serpents ) are named " cornetto-" with a tonal or pitch related Latin word following the hyphen to describe the particular variant.

The 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica referred to serpents as " old wooden cornets ".

The Roman / Etruscan cornu ( or simply " horn ") is the lingual ancestor of these.

It is a predecessor of the post horn from which the cornet evolved and was used like a bugle to signal orders on the battlefield.