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Thats the one! I knew it was one or the other. XD
Of course it did, and the Alicorn amulet itself clearly has a horses head with horn and wings forming the sides.
The first time it was explicitly used about a horned pegasus, but the word first appeared in “Magic Duel” (the Alicorn Amulet).
Interesting how language works.
Alicorn (with an “i”) has been used to mean the substance that unicorn horns are made of since antiquity. Alacorn (with two “a”s) was coined in the mid-70s as a portmanteau of “alate” (having wings or winglike appendages) and “unicorn”, because the creator of that term had the good taste to dislike “pegacorn”, which was the most common term for a winged unicorn in his circle of friends. I suspect “alacorn” got misspelled as “alicorn” early on as the latter term was already familiar to fantasy enthusiasts, and then Piers Anthony stumbled across “alicorn” in an advertisement and all but set that spelling in stone.
First use of the word alicorn was indeed MMC, end of season 3.
Alicorn is greek for a horse with wings and a horn.
Alicorn means the stuff that horns are made of, i think…But the fans decided to use that for winged-unicorns.
“Alicorn” WAS originally a fanmade term.