conus

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See also: CONUS and cônus

English

Etymology

Latin cōnus (“cone”)

Pronunciation

Noun

conus (plural coni)

  1. (obsolete, geometry) A cone.

Related terms

References

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Pronunciation

Noun

cōnus m (genitive cōnī); second declension

  1. cone

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōnus cōnī
Genitive cōnī cōnōrum
Dative cōnō cōnīs
Accusative cōnum cōnōs
Ablative cōnō cōnīs
Vocative cōne cōnī

Descendants

  • >? Galician: con, co
  • → Catalan: con
  • → Galician: cono
  • → German: Konus
  • → Indonesian: konus
  • → Italian: cono
  • → Middle French: cone
  • → Romanian: con
  • → Russian: ко́нус (kónus)
  • Sicilian: cunu (obsolete), conu
  • → Spanish: cono
  • → Ukrainian: ко́нус (kónus)

References

  • “conus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “conus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • conus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • conus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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