The story
- Middle French · borrowed fromcone
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκῶνος“cone, spinning top, pine cone”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromcōnus
- Middle English · inherited fromcone“corner, angle”
- English todaycone
From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκῶνος all →
conureconodontossicone
Middle Frenchcone all →
ossicone
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.