canis

Older canēs, remodelled with generalization of the accusative form's vowel, from Proto-Italic *kō (acc. *kwanem, gen. *kunos),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈka.nɪs]

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canis m or f (genitive canis); third declension

1. a dog (animal)
   • Petronius

     Cave canem.

     Beware of the dog.

2. a dog (foul person)

Third declension.

See the etymology of the main entry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.niːs/

canīs

1. inflection of canus:
   1. dative masculine plural
   2. dative feminine plural
   3. dative neuter plural
   4. ablative masculine plural
   5. ablative feminine plural
   6. ablative neuter plural

See the etymology of the main entry.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈka.nɪs]

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canis

1. second-person singular present active indicative of canō

• canis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• canis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to keep horses, dogs: alere equos, canes
    
• canis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

canis m

1. plural of canil

canis

1. plural of cani