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Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin cānūtus, from Latin cānus. Cognate with French chenu. By surface analysis, cano (“white-haired”) + -uto (“-ed”, “having ”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈnu.to/
- Rhymes: -uto
- Hyphenation: ca‧nù‧to
Adjective
canuto (feminine canuta, masculine plural canuti, feminine plural canute)
- grey, hoary, white (of hair)
1840, Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, Chapter VIII, page 142:Due folte ciocche di capelli, che gli scappavano fuor della papalina, due folti sopraccigli, due folti baffi, un folto pizzo, tutti canuti- Two thick curls which escaped from beneath the cap, two thick eyebrows, two thick mustachios, a dense tuft along his chin, all quite grey
1903, Gabriele D'Annunzio, “L'opere e i giorni [Works and Days]”, in Alcyone, collected in D'Annunzio: versi d'amore e di gloria, volume 2, Milan, published 2004, lines 29–31:sale su per lo stipite di pietra ¶ il bianco gelsomin grato alle pecchie ¶ eguale di candore al crin canuto.- it goes up along the stone jamb ¶ the white jasmin, grateful to the bees, ¶ equal in candor to the whitening hair.
- (by extension) hoary-haired
- (figurative, poetic) old, serious, staid
1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Trionfo della Pudicizia [Triumph of Demureness]”, in I trionfi [The Triumphs], Milan: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1997, lines 87–88:Timor d’infamia e Desio sol d’onore, ¶ Penser canuti in giovenile etate- Fear of shame and desire only for honour/honor ¶ Mature thoughts at a youthful age
1581, Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata [Jerusalem Delivered], Erasmo Viotti, Canto IV, page 76:[…] ò diletta mia, che ſotto biondi ¶ capelli, e frà sì tenere ſembianze, ¶ canuto ſenno e cor virile aſcondi- O my beloved, you who, under blond hair and so lovely an appearance, hide serious judgement and a virile heart
- (by extension, literary) covered in white, specifically:
- besnowed, snow-covered, snowy (of mountains)
16th century, Gabriello Chiabrera, “Viva perla de' fiumi [Live Pearl of the Rivers]”, in Opere di Gabriello Chiabrera e di Fulvio Testi, Niccolò Bettoni, published 1834, page 12:O chiara, o regal figlia ¶ de' gioghi infra le nubi alti e canuti!- O bright, o royal daughter ¶ of the tall and snowy beclouded summits!
- foamy, spumescent (of seawater)
1907, Alfredo Panzini, “XVIII. Negrito, il feroce [Negrito, the Ferocious]”, in La lanterna di Diogene, published 2016:Il mare azzurro rotolava le sue onde canute, ancora come ai tempi di Omero.- The light-blue sea was rolling its foamy waves, like in Homer's times.
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Latin
Adjective
cānūtō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cānūtus
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈnuto/
- Rhymes: -uto
- Syllabification: ca‧nu‧to
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Mozarabic *qannût, from Vulgar Latin *cannūtus (“resembling sugarcane”), from Latin canna (“cane”).
Noun
canuto m (plural canutos)
- tube
- Synonym: tubo
- (slang) joint, reefer
- Synonyms: (Honduras) bate, (Honduras) carruco, leño, porro
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Etymology 2
From Juan Bautista Canut de Bon Gil, a Spanish Methodist preacher, formerly a Jesuit, who founded several evangelical churches in Chile.
Adjective
canuto (feminine canuta, masculine plural canutos, feminine plural canutas)
- (slang) awesome; wonderful
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Noun
canuto m (plural canutos)
- (slang, Chile, derogatory) evangelical
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