conus

See also: CONUS and cônus

English

Etymology

Latin cōnus (“cone”)

Noun

conus (plural coni)

1. (obsolete, geometry) A cone.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.nus/, [ˈkoːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.nus/, [ˈkɔːnus]

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 (possibly)
• → Catalan: con
• → Galician: cono
• → German: Konus
• → Italian: cono
• → Middle French: cone
  • → French: cône
  • → English: cone
  • → Portuguese: cone
• → Romanian: con
• → Russian: ко́нус (kónus)
• Sicilian: cunu (obsolete), conu
• → Spanish: cono

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.