FA: To tweak a point even further, cornuate would be
related to crown. So by cornuating ones husband one could be crowning
him.
Indeed: "'Why not Tofana?' wondered the good and
sur-royally antlered general [Ivan Durmanov, Dolly's betrayed
husband]. On the other hand, rogonosets velichavyi ("the
majestical cornuto") is mentioned by Pushkin in Eugene Onegin
(One: XII: 12). See also VN's note to this line in the Commentary to
his Translation of EO (vol. 2, pp. 65-66, in my reprint of the Bollingen
edition). Incidentally, the whole cuckolding business in ADA seems to go
back to Pushkin (who perished because he couldn't stand the thought that one day
he might become a cocu himself). I the letter of Nov 6 (old style),
1833, from Boldino, he tells his wife that he has just read quite a
dissertation on cocuage in Brantôme.
FA: BTW do women ever receive antlers, horns, crowns etc.
when husbands cuckold them?
Apparently, they do not. At least, Dolly
Oblonsky (the namesake of Aqua's and Marina's mother),
Steve Oblonsky's poor betrayed wife, doesn't seem to have, unlike Alexey
Alexandrovich Karenin, her husband's brother-in-law, any
antlers.
Alexey Sklyarenko