conus

See also: CONUS and cônus

English

Etymology

Latin cōnus (“cone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊnəs/

Noun

conus (plural coni)

1. (obsolete, geometry) A cone.

Related terms

• conus arteriosus
• conus medullaris

 

References

• “conus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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
• → Indonesian: konus
• → Italian: cono
• → Middle French: cone
  • → French: cône
  • → English: cone
  • → Portuguese: cone
• → Romanian: con
• → Russian: ко́нус (kónus)
  • → Kazakh: конус (konus)
• 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