The corpus record — Latin

conus

conus · m

a cone

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Conon 8 · 108.99/10k
Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Argonautica 2 · 0.54/10k
Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cōnus — Lewis & Short

cōnus, i, m., = kw=nos,

I a cone.

I In gen., Lucr. 4, 430 and 432; Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24; 2, 18, 47 al.—

II Esp., of conical bodies,

A The apex of a helmet, Verg. A. 3, 468; Ov. M. 3, 108; Plin. 10, 1, 1, § 2; cf. Isid. Orig. 18, 14, 2.—

B The cone of the cypress, Col. 6, 7, 2.—

C A kind of sundial, Vitr. 9, 8, 1.

In the wild

Conon Cornelius Nepos, Conon 4
Conon Catullus, Carmina elegies.66.7
Conon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.31.p1
conum Vergil, Aeneid 3.468
conosque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.1
conum Claudian, Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.194

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.