Etymograph

English

hemicondyle

From hemi- + condyle.

Formed from hemi- + condyle

Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’

Proto-Indo-European *sēmi ‘half’

English hemi-

Ancient Greek κόνδυλος ‘knuckle’

Latin condylus ‘condyle, knuckle’

French condyle

English condyle

Today it means

noun A single prominence at the end of a bone that normally has a pair of such prominences.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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