Noun: canon
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ca‧non
| Singular m | canon |
| Plural m | cánones |
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”) (compare κάννα (kánna, “reed”)), perhaps of Semitic origin. The fiction sense is borrowed from English canon. See: Latin Nouns '
canōn', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κανών', English Nouns '
canon'.
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