contus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole, pike”), from κεντέω (kentéō, “I sting, goad”).

Noun

contus m (genitive contī); second declension

1. long pole; pike

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contus	contī
genitive	contī	contōrum
dative	contō	contīs
accusative	contum	contōs
ablative	contō	contīs
vocative	conte	contī

Derived terms

• percontor (perhaps)

References

• “contus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• contus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• contus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “contus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin