English
condyle
Condyle comes from Latin condylus ‘condyle, knuckle’, and goes back to Ancient Greek κόνδυλος.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκόνδυλοςkóndulos‘knuckle’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondylus‘condyle, knuckle’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcondyle
- Englishearliest quotation 1925same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκόνδυλοςkóndulos‘knuckle’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondylus‘condyle, knuckle’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcondyle
- Englishearliest quotation 1925same form
Earliest quotation: 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, Chapter 1: “Primitively the exoccipitals took but little part in the…”
Every English word from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος
Today it means
noun A smooth prominence on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek κόνδυλος / condyle