canus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂s- (“bright grey”) (compare Welsh cannu (“to whiten”), ceinach (“hare”), English hare, Latin cascus (“old”), Ancient Greek ξανθός (xanthós, “yellow”), Old Prussian sasnis (“hare”), Pashto سوی (soe, “hare”), Sanskrit शश (śaśa, “hare”)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.nus/, [ˈkäːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.nus/, [ˈkäːnus]
Adjective
cānus (feminine cāna, neuter cānum); first/second-declension adjective
- white
- hoary
- (of water) frothy
- (of hair) gray
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.57-58:
- ‘Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cānī,
inque suō pretiō rūga senīlis erat.’- ‘‘At one time, there was great respect of a gray head,
and the wrinkling of old age was with value in itself.’’
(The voice is that of the muse Urania.)
- ‘‘At one time, there was great respect of a gray head,
- ‘Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cānī,
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cānus | cāna | cānum | cānī | cānae | cāna | |
Genitive | cānī | cānae | cānī | cānōrum | cānārum | cānōrum | |
Dative | cānō | cānō | cānīs | ||||
Accusative | cānum | cānam | cānum | cānōs | cānās | cāna | |
Ablative | cānō | cānā | cānō | cānīs | |||
Vocative | cāne | cāna | cānum | cānī | cānae | cāna |
Derived terms
- cānaster
- cāneō
- cānūtus
- cānitiēs
Related terms
- cānēscō
- cascus
Descendants
- Asturian: canu
- Italian: cano
- Old Portuguese: cão, cãa
- Galician: Cao
- Portuguese: cão
- Portuguese: cã
- Old Spanish: cano
- Spanish: cano
- → Old Portuguese: cano
- Galician: cano
See also
candidus, albus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus | rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeus, grīseus (ML. or NL.) | āter, niger, piceus |
pūniceus, murrinus, rūfus, ruber, russus, rūbrīcus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius | rutilus, armeniacus, auranteus, aurantiacus; fuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx | gilvus, helvus, fulvus, flāvus, croceus, pallidus, lūteus, blondinus (ML.) |
galbus, galbinus, lūridus | viridis | prasinus |
cȳaneus | caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), blavus (ML.) | glaucus; līvidus; venetus |
violāceus, ianthinus, balaustīnus (NL.) | ostrīnus, amethystīnus | purpureus, ātropurpureus, roseus, rosāceus |
References
- “canus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “canus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- canus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- canus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette