Canon

Morpheme

Canon

Type

free base

Denotation

measuring rod, standard

Etymology

Middle English canoun; Old French canon and Old English canon; Latin canōn; Ancient Greek kanṓn

Evidence

canon, Canonbury, canoness, canonic, canonical, canonically, canonicity, canonist, canonistic, canonization, canonize, canonized, canonizes, canonizing, canonlike, canonry, canons, canonship, deuterocanonical, headcanon, noncanon, noncanonical, protocanonical, uncanonized

Notes

<n> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable
homophone of Cannon