cano

From cana (“cane”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkano̝/

cano m (plural canos)

1. pipe, tube
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 17:

     Andado o primeyro ano do rreynado del rey dõ Ordono, fezo Abderamẽ lousar et estar de pedra todas cales de Cordoua, et traier per canos de plomo agoa da serra aa villa

     During the first year of the reign of king Ordoño, Abderrahman ordered to pave in stone every street in Cordoba, and to bring by lead pipes water from the mountains to the city

2. aqueduct, duct for taking water to a mill or to a fountain, either in the surface or under it
   • 1418, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 197:

     como os canos porque ben a augua aa praza do campo da dita çidade esten gardados e reparados en tal maneira que a augoa que por eles ben e ha de bir a os tornos da dita praça do campo

     that the ducts that bring the water to the Praza do Campo of this city must be guarded and repaired, so that the water that run along them should come to the spouts of the aforementioned Praza do Campo

   • 1437, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 121:

     por rasón que o cano da fonte Arcada estaua atuado e tapado ena orta do dito Pero Gomes

     because the aqueduct of the Arched Fountain was clogged and obstructed at Pedro Gomez's garden

   Synonyms: cal, canle, quenlla, levada

3. (archaic) sewer
   • 1418, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 128:

     que abra o cano por que sal ágoa dos ditos baños fasta en baixo a su o arco da pedra et alinpe et aposte e repare o dito cano por vya que a ágoa dos ditos baños se saya libremente

     that he should open the sewer through which the water comes out of those baths, down under the stone arch, and he should clean and maintain and repair the aforementioned sewer so that the water of these baths comes out freely

4. quill, calamus of a feather

   Synonym: cálamo

5. corn stalk

   Synonym: cana

6. spout

   Synonyms: bico, biqueira, picho, torno

7. barrel (of a gun)
8. handle of an oar

From Old Galician-Portuguese cano, from Old Spanish cano, from Latin canus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkano̝/

cano (feminine cana, masculine plural canos, feminine plural canas)

1. hoary, white-haired

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cano” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cano”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos (“grey”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱas-. Compare Portuguese cão.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: cà‧no

cano (feminine cana, masculine plural cani, feminine plural cane)

1. (obsolete, literary) hoary-haired, white-haired

   Synonym: canuto

   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso [Raging Roland]‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XXXIV, page 162:

     Nel primo chioſtro una femina cana ¶ fila a un'aſpo trahea da tutti quelli

     In the outer porch, a dame of hoary hair ¶ yarns to her reel from all those drew

• anco, ocna

From Proto-Italic *kanō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂n-é-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”). Compare carmen (“song”) (< *kanmen).

Cognates include Old Irish canaid, Welsh canu, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌰 (hana, “cock”), Ancient Greek καναχέω (kanakhéō, “ring, clash, clang”), Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”), каню́чить (kanjúčitʹ), English hen.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.noː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/,

canō (present infinitive canere, perfect active cecinī, supine cantum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to sing, recite, play
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.1:

     Arma virumque cano

     I sing of weapons and a man

2. (transitive) to sound, play, blow (a trumpet), especially a military call
3. (transitive) to foretell, predict, prophesy

   Synonyms: praesāgiō, praemoneō, portendō, moneō, praedīcō, vāticinor

4. (transitive, Medieval Latin) to celebrate Mass
5. (transitive or intransitive, Medieval Latin) to pretend (that)
6. (intransitive) to sing, make music
7. (intransitive) to chant
8. (intransitive, of owls) to hoot
9. (intransitive, of a musical instrument) to sound, resound, play
10. (intransitive) to sound, play

• carmen

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.noː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/,

cānō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cānus (“white, hoary”)

• “cano”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cano”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cano in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cano in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the orchestra is playing: symphōnīa canit (Verr. 3. 44. 105)
    
  • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    
  • the trumpet sounds for the attack: classicum canit (B. C. 3. 82)
    
  • the retreat is sounded: signa receptui canunt
    
  • the retreat is sounded: receptui canitur (B. G. 7. 47)
    
  • (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
    
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cano”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

Borrowed from Old Spanish cano. Doublet of cão, which was inherited.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/
• Rhymes: -ano

cano (plural canos, feminine cana, feminine plural canas)

1. Synonym of cão (white-haired)

• Galician: cano

From cana (“cane, reed”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnu, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nu
• Hyphenation: ca‧no

cano m (plural canos)

1. tube, pipe
   • 2012, João Pedro George, Como sobreviver a um terramoto em Portugal, Leya, →ISBN:

     Os terramotos (e as suas réplicas) costumam dar origem a incêndios (devido ao rebentamento das canalizações de gás ou das instalações de eletricidade) e a inundações (devido à rutura dos canos da água). Havendo aparelhos que ...

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2. channel
3. (firearms) barrel (metallic tube of a gun)

• IPA^(key):

cano f

1. vocative singular of cană

Inherited from Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkano/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: ca‧no

cano (feminine cana, masculine plural canos, feminine plural canas)

1. hoary, white-haired, grey-haired
2. ancient, old (of a person)
3. (rare) white, snow-white, milky white

• “cano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkanɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːnɔ/, /ˈkanɔ/

cano

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of canu