cón

See also: Appendix:Variations of "con"

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cone.

Noun

cón m (genitive singular cóin, nominative plural cóin)

1. (geometry) cone

Declension

Declension of cón (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative cón cóin vocative a chóin a chóna genitive cóin cón dative cón cóin forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an cón na cóin genitive an chóin na gcón dative leis an gcón don chón leis na cóin

Derived terms

• cón solais (“light cone”)
• cón tráchta (“traffic cone”)
• cón túise (“incense cone”)
• cón uachtar reoite (“ice cream cone”)
• cónach (“conic”, adjective)
• cónacháin m pl (“conics”)
• cónacht (“conicity”)
• cónchill
• cónúil (“conical”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cón

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cón	chón	gcón

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cón”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “cón”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cón”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025