Etymology — The Origins of English Words

From Latin Corinthius + -an. By surface analysis, Corinth + -ian. The senses related to opulence or debauchery derive from the reputation of ancient Corinth.

Borrowed from Latin cōnflūxus.

From cover + all.

From confection (verb) + -er.

Latinism, likely a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis, possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier doublet of cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin cōgitātiō, cōgitātiōnem; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction cōgitātus + -iō, from the perfect passive participle of Latin cōgitō (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”), frequentative verb from con- (“together, with”) + agitō (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), root from Proto-Italic *agō (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.

Blend of community + university.

Derived from Latin Cōnstantia. Doublet of Constantia.

From counter- + factual.

From Latin cornu (“horn”) + -gerous.

From contrast + -ed.

From contra- + natural. Compare counternatural.

Compound of corn + row, reflecting the figurative evocation of rows of corn in a cornfield.

From French corporéité or Medieval Latin corporeitas, from Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”).

From Middle English comfortles; equivalent to comfort + -less.

From Latin compurgātiōnem, from compurgāre (“to purify”).

From colour + -ise.

From Latin cōncipiō (“to take hold of, to receive”), from Latin capiō (“to capture”).

From correct + -itude.

From contract + -ee.

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

From Old French congruité.

From conversation + -ist.

Unknown.

Borrowed from Latin conductio, conductionem (“a bringing together”); equivalent to conduct + -ion.