Cuckold

The term refers to a cuckold husband whose wife is unfaithful. The corresponding phrase that a cuckolded husband " horns placed " had been, it is so play around a horned at him, can probably previously used treatment of castrated roosters ( capons ) lead back.

For the High Middle Ages, a use of the word " capon " is occupied for the purposes of adulterers and couplers.

In modern German parlance the widespread moral reinterpretation of unfaithfulness is manifested itself in a conscious and deliberate taking of the role of the betrayed husband will no longer be designated by the term " cuckold ", but with the corresponding English loan word cuckold.