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Latin
Etymology
From cānus (“gray, hoary”) + -eō.
Pronunciation
Verb
cāneō (present infinitive cānēre, perfect active cānuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to be white, gray or hoary
Conjugation
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References
- “caneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caneo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caneo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to sing the praises of some one (not canere aliquem: alicuius laudes (virtutes) canere
- (ambiguous) to play on the lyre: fidibus canere
- (ambiguous) to play the flute: tibiis or tibiā canere
- (ambiguous) to sing to a flute accompaniment: ad tibiam or ad tibicinem canere
Spanish
Verb
caneo
- first-person singular present indicative of canear