English
conditory
Conditory comes from Latin conditorium ‘repository’, from condō ‘to hide’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱóm1‘beside, near, by, with’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kom1‘with, along, at’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kom-1‘together’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondō2as condere‘to hide’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconditorium2‘repository’
- Englishtodayconditory2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin con-
- 2 Wiktionary, English conditory
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ḱómWiktionary, Latin con-‘beside, near, by, with’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*komWiktionary, Latin con-‘with, along, at’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kom-Wiktionary, Latin con-‘together’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcondōWiktionary, English conditoryas condere‘to hide’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconditoriumWiktionary, English conditory‘repository’
- EnglishtodayconditoryWiktionary, English conditory
The story
The cake shop is from German Konditorei
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱe ‘Deictic particle, here’
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’
among, gain, comply, likeness, hind, kata, limbed, 30 more
through Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’
cum, consideration, cue, 13 more
through Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’
conference, consider, competition, counter, consistent, concrete, con, commodity, compulsory, compel, contra, concierge, connotation, condescend, 14 more
through Latin condō ‘to hide’
Today it means
noun A repository for holding things; a hiding place or relicary.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “conditory”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin con-. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm / conditory