Ancon

See also: ancon and anĉon

English

Noun

Ancon (plural Ancons)

1. A sheep of a breed from Massachusetts with short crooked legs and long back.

Anagrams

• Canon, Conan, canon, cañon

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ancōna

Etymology

From ancōn (“bend, elbow”).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ancōn f sg (genitive Ancōnis); third declension

1. Ancona (a city in Italy)

Declension

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Ancōn
genitive	Ancōnis
dative	Ancōnī
accusative	Ancōnem
ablative	Ancōne
vocative	Ancōn
locative	Ancōnī Ancōne

References

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