ancon

From Latin ancōn, from Ancient Greek ἀγκών (ankṓn, “bend, elbow, cranny”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæŋkɒn/

ancon (plural ancones or ancons)

1. (obsolete) The corner of a wall or rafter.
2. (architecture) A console that appears to support a cornice.
3. (anatomy) The elbow.
4. (anatomy) The olecranon.

• anconad
• anconagra
• anconeal
• anconitis
• anconoid

• Canon, Conan, canon, cañon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγκῶν (ankôn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.koːn/, [ˈäŋkoːn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.kon/, [ˈäŋkon]

ancōn m (genitive ancōnis); third declension

1. The elbow
2. The arm of a workman's square
3. A console that appears to support a cornice
4. The knobbed bars of a hydraulic engine
5. The forked poles for spreading nets
6. The arm of a chair
7. A jug

Third-declension noun.

• (forked poles): ames

• “ancōn”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ancōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette