conus
See also: CONUS and cônus
English
Etymology
Latin cōnus (“cone”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkəʊnəs/
Noun
conus (plural coni)
- (obsolete, geometry) A cone.
Related terms
- conus arteriosus
- conus medullaris
References
- conus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.nus/, [ˈkoːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.nus/, [ˈkɔːnus]
Noun
cōnus m (genitive cōnī); second declension
- 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)
- 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