canis

See also: Canis

Latin

canis (a dog)

Etymology 1

Older canēs, remodelled with generalization of the accusative form's vowel, from Proto-Italic *kō (acc. *kwanem, gen. *kunos), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkänɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkäːnis]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

canis m or f (genitive canis); third declension

1. a dog (animal)
   • Petronius

     Cave canem.

     Beware of the dog.

2. a dog (foul person)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canis	canēs
Genitive	canis	canum
Dative	canī	canibus
Accusative	canem	canēs
Ablative	cane	canibus
Vocative	canis	canēs

Related terms

• canārius
• canātim
• canīcula
• canīculāris
• canīculus
• caniformis
• canīnus

 

Descendants

Descendants

• Aragonese: can
• Aromanian: cãni, cãne
• Asturian: can
• Catalan: ca
• Corsican: cane
• Dalmatian: cun, cuon
• Franco-Provençal: chin
• Old French: chien
  • Middle French: chien
    • French: chien
  • Bourguignon: chein
  • Norman: qùyin (France)
  • Picard: tchien, kien, quien
  • Walloon: tchén
• Friulian: cjan, čhan
• Istriot: can
• Istro-Romanian: căre
• Italian: cane

• Ladin: cian
• Ligurian: can
• Lombard: cà
• Mozarabic: כאנה (kʔnh) قانَا
• Megleno-Romanian: cǫini
• Occitan: can
• Old Galician-Portuguese: can
  • Galician: can
  • Portuguese: cão
• Romagnol: can
• Romanian: câine
• Romansch: chaun, tgaun, chan
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: cani

  Logudorese: cane

• Sicilian: cani
• Spanish: can
• Venetian: can

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.niːs/, [ˈkäːniːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkäːnis]

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cānīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of cānus

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkänɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkäːnis]

• Audio (Classical):

  (file)

Verb

(deprecated template usage) canis

1. second-person singular present active indicative of canō

References

• “canis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “canis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canis 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)
• canis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to keep horses, dogs: alere equos, canes
    
• “canis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Portuguese

Noun

canis m

1. plural of canil

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Spanish

Noun

canis

1. plural of cani