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),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈka.nɪs]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

canis m, f (genitive canis); third declension

  1. a dog (animal)
  2. a dog (foul person)
Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative canis canēs
genitive canis canum
dative canī canibus
accusative canem canēs
ablative cane canibus
vocative canis canēs

Descendants

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Pronunciation

Adjective

canīs

  1. inflection of canus:
    1. dative masculine plural
    2. dative feminine plural
    3. dative neuter plural
    4. ablative masculine plural
    5. ablative feminine plural
    6. ablative neuter plural

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈka.nɪs]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Verb

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, 1883–1887)
  • canis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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
  1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 87

Portuguese

Noun

canis m

  1. plural of canil

Spanish

Noun

canis

  1. plural of cani
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