conus

See also: CONUS and cônus

English

Etymology

Noun

conus (plural coni)

(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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.nus/, [ˈkoː.nʊs]

Noun

cōnus m (genitive cōnī); second declension

cone

Declension

Second declension.

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

Descendants

Catalan: con
Galician: cono
German: Konus
Italian: cono

Middle French: cone
- French: cône
- English: cone
- Portuguese: cone
Romanian: con
Russian: ко́нус (kónus)
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, 1883–1887)
conus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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