conus

See also: CONUS and cônus

English

Etymology

Latin cōnus (“cone”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊnəs/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

conus (plural coni)

(obsolete, geometry) A cone.

Related terms

References

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

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkoː.nʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.nus]

Noun

cōnus m (genitive cōnī); second declension

cone

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōnus	cōnī
genitive	cōnī	cōnōrum
dative	cōnō	cōnīs
accusative	cōnum	cōnōs
ablative	cōnō	cōnīs
vocative	cōne	cōnī

Descendants

Descendants

→ Catalan: con
→ Galician: cono
>? Galician: con, co, coio
→ 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.