The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκῶνος“cone, spinning top, pine cone”
- Latin · derived fromcōnus“cone, wedge, peak”
- Middle French · derived fromcone
- English todayossicone
From Latin os (“bone”) and Middle French cone, from Latin cōnus (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Frenchcone all →
cone
Latincōnus all →
conuskeratoconus
Ancient Greekκῶνος all →
coneconureconodont
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.