canicula

See also: Canicula, canícula, and caniculă

Latin

Etymology

From canis (“dog”) +‎ -cula. The sense ‘dogfish, shark’ is probably a calque of Ancient Greek σκύλιον (skúlion).

Noun

canīcula f (genitive canīculae); first declension

1. Diminutive of canis
2. little dog
3. dogfish, shark

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canīcula	canīculae
Genitive	canīculae	canīculārum
Dative	canīculae	canīculīs
Accusative	canīculam	canīculās
Ablative	canīculā	canīculīs
Vocative	canīcula	canīculae

Derived terms

• Canīcula (“Dog Star”)
• canīculāris

Descendants

Inherited:

• French: chenille (“caterpillar”)
  • → Catalan: xenilla
  • → English: chenille
  • → Italian: ciniglia
  • → Romanian: șenilă
  • → Russian: шине́ль (šinélʹ), шени́лл (šeníll)
• Galician: quenlla
• Spanish: canijo

Borrowed:

• → Byzantine Greek: κανίκλειος (kaníkleios)
• → Catalan: canícula
• → French: canicule
• → Italian: canicola (“shark”)
• → Portuguese: canícula
• → Romanian: caniculă
• → Spanish: canícula
• → English: Canicula
• → Polish: kanikuła
• → Russian: кани́кулы (kaníkuly)

References

• “canicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “canicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canicula 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)
• canicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kaˈnikula]

Noun

canicula f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of caniculă