Noun: canif
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | canif |
| Plural m | canifs |
Sample Sentences
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Et sens la pointe d'un canif
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Me percer le cœur je luis dis
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"Petite je te sors ce soir, ok ?" [1976, Serge Gainsbourg, “Chez Max coiffeur pour hommes”, in L’homme à tête de chou:]
Nouns inflected like canif
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French quenif, from Middle English knyf (“knife”), from Old English cnīf (“knife”) (however also derived from Late Vulgar Latin *cnifus, if not reinforced), from Old Norse kníf or Proto-West Germanic *knīb, from Proto-Germanic *knībaz (“knife”). Akin to Old French cnivet, canivet (“little knife”), Catalan ganivet (“knife”), from Frankish *knīf (“knife”), from the same Germanic source. More at knife. See: Middle English Nouns '
knyf', Catalan Nouns '
ganivet'.
Verbs referencing "canif"
Portuguese Nouns
canivete.
Translations