conopeum

conopeum (plural conopea)

1. A thin flap of silica on the external valve face of a diatom

• pseudoconopeum

• come upon

From Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon) (konopeion).

cōnōpēum n (genitive cōnōpēī); second declension

1. mosquito net
2. canopy

Second declension.

• Italian: conopeo
• Old French: canopé, canope
  • French: canapé (see there for further descendants)
• Portuguese: conopeu
• → Middle English: canope
  • English: canopy
    • → French: canopée (calque)
    • → Spanish: canopy
• → English: conopeum

• conopeum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conopeum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conopeum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• conopeum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• conopeum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin