canities

English

Etymology

From Latin cānitiēs (“gray hair, old age”).

Noun

canities (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon, medicine) The condition of having gray hair.
    • 1896, George M. Gould, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine‎:
      Voigtel mentions the occurrence of canities almost suddenly.

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Noun

cānitiēs f (genitive cānitiēī); fifth declension

  1. hoar; hoariness
  2. grey hair
  3. old age

Inflection

Fifth declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cānitiēs cānitiēs
genitive cānitiēī cānitiērum
dative cānitiēī cānitiēbus
accusative cānitiem cānitiēs
ablative cānitiē cānitiēbus
vocative cānitiēs cānitiēs

References

  • canities in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • canities in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canities in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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