Etymology

frustum

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Today it means: A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base. Full definition →

Latin frustum ← Proto-Italic *frustom ← Proto-Indo-European *bʰrustós
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrews-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrustós
  3. Proto-Italic*frustom
  4. Latinfrustum
  5. English todayfrustum

Borrowed from Latin frustum (“morsel”).

Words from the same roots

Latinfrustum all →

frush

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.