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. Cognates include Ancient Greek κῠ́ων (kúōn) and English hound[2].

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkänɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkäːnis]

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canis m or f (genitive canis); third declension

1. a dog, a hound (animal)
   • Petronius

     Cave canem.

     Beware of the dog.

2. a ‘dog’ constellation or ‘dog’ star: either Canis Major, its brightest star Sirius; or Canis Minor, its brightest star Procyon
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.939-940:

     ‘est Canis, Īcarium dīcunt, quō sīdere mōtō
     tosta sitit tellūs, praecipiturque seges’

     ‘‘There is a Dog – they say [of?] Icarius – a star (or constellation), [and] where it has moved, the earth thirsts, [it] having been scorched, and the crop is seized beforehand.’’
     (Maera (hound) found the body of Icarius (Athenian) and became the constellation Canis Minor with the bright ‘‘dog’’ star Procyon; it, along with Canis Major, the other celestial dog with its brighter ‘‘dog’’ star Sirius, were believed to cause late summer heat and drought.)

3. a dog, a hound, a bounder, a blackguard, a cad, a heel (foul person)
4. a dog, a creature (human parasite or follower who depends on someone with great power and resources and bends to their will)
5. a tiger, a dragon, a savage (a fierce or enraged person)

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.niːs/, [ˈkäːniːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkäːnis]

cānīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of cānus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkänɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nis/, [ˈkäːnis]

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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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

• nāscī (“to be born”)

canis m

1. plural of canil

canis m pl

1. plural of cani