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Latin
Etymology
From cānus (“gray”) + -ūtus (adjective-forming suffix). Attested in the Philoxenus Glossary, composed in the sixth century CE.
Adjective
cānūtus (feminine cānūta, neuter cānūtum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
- grayed, grey-haired
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Western Romance:
References
- “canutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- canutus 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)
- canutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- canutus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016