Noun: canijo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ca‧ni‧jo
| Singular m | canijo |
| Singular f | canija |
| Plural m | canijos |
| Plural f | canijas |
Sample Sentences
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me siento un canijo (I feel like a kid)
Nouns inflected like canijo
botellero,
paletero,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
gibareño,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
evacuado,
subprefecto,
miliciano,
gibelino,
moguereño,
angloamericano,
sereno,
serbio,
gregario,
seboso,
sedero,
cristiano,
babilonio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder.
3. Latin canēs
4. Latin canis
5. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
6. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
7. Proto-Italic *-elos
8. Proto-Italic *-kelos
9. Latin -cula
10. Latin canīcula
11. Vulgar Latin *canicla?
12. Spanish canijo
13. Probably from Latin canīcula (through a contracted Vulgar Latin form *canicla, later becoming an adjective of both genders). Doublet of canícula. See: Latin Nouns '
canīcula'.
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