canis

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) a dog, a hound (animal)
2. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) a ‘dog’ constellation or ‘dog’ star: either Canis Major, its brightest star Sirius; or Canis Minor, its brightest star Procyon
3. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) a dog, a hound, a bounder, a blackguard, a cad, a heel (foul person)
4. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) a dog, a creature (human parasite or follower who depends on someone with great power and resources and bends to their will)
5. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) a tiger, a dragon, a savage (a fierce or enraged person)
6. (declension-3, feminine, masculine) the lowest, worst throw at the dice, an ace

Adj

dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of cānus

Verb

second-person singular present active indicative of canō

Traducións

dog

🐕

Hund

🐕

perro

🐕

chien

🐕

hond

🐕

cane

🐕

cão

🐕

σκύλος

köpek

🐕

cachorro

gos

🐕

gos

can

ca

🐕

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

[ˈka.nɪs]

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

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.
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.