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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 خړ (xëṛ, grey), Sanskrit शश (śaśa, hare)).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cānus (feminine cāna, neuter cānum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. white
  2. hoary
  3. (of water) frothy
  4. (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.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: cano
  • Ibero-Romance:

See also

Colors in Latin · colōrēs (layout · text)
     albus, candidus, subalbus, niveus, cēreus, marmoreus, eburneus, cānus, blancus (ML.)      glaucus, rāvus, pullus, cinereus, cinerāceus, plumbeusgrīseus (ML. or NL.)      niger, āter, piceus, furvus
             ruber, rūbidus, rūfus, rubicundus, russus, rubrīcus, pūniceusmurrinus, mulleus; cocceus, coccīnus, badius              rutilus, armeniacus, aurantius, aurantiacus; fuscus, suffuscus, colōrius, cervīnus, spādīx, castaneus, aquilus, fulvus, brunneus (ML.)              flāvus, sufflāvus, flāvidus, fulvus, lūteus, gilvus, helvus, croceus, pallidus, blondinus (ML.)
             galbus, galbinus, lūridus              viridis              prasinus
             cȳaneus              caeruleus, azurīnus (ML.), caesius, blāvus (LL.)              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.
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