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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos).
Pronunciation
Noun
condylus m (genitive condylī); second declension
- (anatomy) condyle, knuckle; the joint at the end of a bone
- node in the culm of a reed
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “condylus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- condylus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.