Adjective: cano
Hyphenation: cà‧no
| Singular m. | cano |
| Singular f. | cana |
| Plural m. | cani |
| Plural f. | cane |
Sample Sentences
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Nel primo chioſtro una femina cana ¶ fila a un'aſpo trahea da tutti quelli (In the outer porch, a dame of hoary hair ¶ yarns to her reel from all those [fleeces] drew) [1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland], Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XXXIV, page 162:]
Adjectives inflected like cano
periurbano,
rigenerativo,
ionizzato,
surrogato,
monferrino,
coscienzioso,
palesato,
urinoso,
megadiverso,
autovalutativo,
sfatto,
sfitto,
tiburtino,
evacuato,
meschino,
angloamericano,
moltiplicativo,
sessantaseiesimo,
transgiordano,
sereno, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos (“grey”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱas-. Compare Portuguese cão. See: Latin Adjectives '
cānus', Latin Adjectives '
cānus', Portuguese Adjectives '
cão'.
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