caneo Latin · revision 33312

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=ine-pro *ḱh₁s-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkaː.ne.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkaː.ne.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cāneō''' (present infinitive cānēre, perfect active cānuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ The present participle ''cānēns'' is mostly used as an adjective, “grey, hoary, white”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cānus|-eō|t1=grey, hoary]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|cānus]] to [[itc-pro|*kasno-|t=grey]] and [[ine-pro|*ḱh₁s-no-|t=grey]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[ang|hasu|t=grey-brown]] and [[goh|haso|t=hare]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it from Virgil on,^(TLL) who speaks of old age not yet whitening both temples, ''necdum temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to be or become covered in white, to be hoary, and especially to be white or grey with age;^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it poetic or post-Augustan prose.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Virgil also has hoary old age, ''cānēns senecta'', and Ovid ashes that whiten in the fire.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus says that many like this appearance and grow grey still marked by it.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that writers used it very rarely, preferring [[cānēscō]], and that its finite forms appear only in Tacitus.^(TLL) In Church Latin it is to be white, grey or hoary.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of greying temples.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of whitening ashes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of growing grey.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To be white, [[m|en|grey]] or [[m|en|hoary]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) to be grey with age.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cānēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cānus]]

+ * [[cānitiēs]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}