canis – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of canis

Noun: canis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singularcanis
Pluralcanēs

Genitive

Singularcanis
Pluralcanum

Dative

Singularcanī
Pluralcanibus

Accusative

Singularcanem
Pluralcanēs

Ablative

Singularcane
Pluralcanibus

Vocative

Singularcanis
Pluralcanēs

Sample Sentences

  • Petronius
  • Cave canem. (Beware of the dog.)
  • ‘est Canis, Īcarium dīcunt, quō sīdere mōtō
  • tosta sitit tellūs, praecipiturque seges’
  • ‘‘There is a Dog – they say [of?] Icarius – a star (or constellation), [and] where it has moved, the earth thirsts, [it] having been scorched, and the crop is seized beforehand.’’ ((Maera (hound) found the body of Icarius (Athenian) and became the constellation Canis Minor with the bright ‘‘dog’’ star Procyon; it, along with Canis Major, the other celestial dog with its brighter ‘‘dog’’ star Sirius, were believed to cause late summer heat and drought.)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.939–940]
  • Talis enim iactatis, ut quisque canem aut senionem miserat, in singulos talos singulos denarios in medium conferebat, quos tollebat uniuersos, qui Venerem iecerat (When the tali (oblong dice) would be thrown, those who had gotten an ace or a six had to place a denarius in the middle of the table for each die thrown, the one that would achieve in getting a Venus (the best throw) won it all.) [121 CE, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume Aug.71:]

Nouns inflected like canis

iuvenis, canis, juvenis, chanis,

Etymology

1. From earlier canēs. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ, *ḱun- (“dog”), from earlier *ḱwón-s, whence also Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), though the expected outcome was formally much altered.
2. The -a- gained a number of ad hoc explanations, such as a shift of *-wo- to *-wa- in open syllables, or of *-n̥- to -an- before vowels. The initial unrounded c- must have been levelled early into the rest of the inflection from the expected nominative outcome *cō, as *ḱw- would have regularly delabialised before a rounded vowel. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'κύων'.

Verbs referencing "canis"

French Nouns chien, Asturian Nouns can, Galician Nouns can, Old Portuguese Nouns can, Spanish Nouns can, Old English Nouns hund, Italian Nouns cane, Ancient Greek Nouns κύων, Catalan Nouns ca, English Nouns kennel, Finnish Nouns kennel, Latvian Nouns suns, Portuguese Nouns cão, Romanian Nouns câine, English Nouns canicide, Catalan Nouns canilla, French Nouns cagnotte, Galician Nouns canil, Portuguese Nouns canil, Spanish Nouns canil, Russian Nouns каналья, Polish Nouns kanalia, Spanish Nouns canódromo.

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