cano

See also: Cano, canó, ĉano, caño, ca-nô, and ca nô

Galician

Cano of a mill, Ameixenda, Galicia

Fonte dos tres canos ("Fountain of the three spouts"), O Porriño

Etymology 1

From cana (“cane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkano̝/

Noun

cano m (plural canos)

1. pipe, tube
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 17:

     Andado o primeyro ano do rreynado del rey dõ Ordono, fezo Abderamẽ lousar et est[r]ar de pedra todas [as] cales de Cordoua, et traier per canos de plomo agoa da serra aa villa

     During the first year of the reign of king Ordoño, Abderrahman ordered to pave in stone every street in Cordoba, and to bring by lead pipes water from the mountains to the city

2. aqueduct, duct for taking water to a mill or to a fountain, either in the surface or under it
   • 1418, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 197:

     como os canos porque ben a augua aa praza do campo da dita çidade esten gardados e reparados en tal maneira que a augoa que por eles ben e ha de bir a os tornos da dita praça do campo

     that the ducts that bring the water to the Praza [Square] do Campo of this city must be guarded and repaired, so that the water that run along them should come to the spouts of the aforementioned Praza do Campo

   • 1437, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 121:

     por rasón que o cano da fonte Arcada estaua atuado e tapado ena orta do dito Pero Gomes

     because the aqueduct of the Arched Fountain was clogged and obstructed at Pedro Gomez's garden

   Synonyms: cal, canle, quenlla, levada

3. (archaic) sewer
   • 1418, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 128:

     que abra o cano por que sal ágoa dos ditos baños fasta en baixo a su o arco da pedra et alinpe et aposte e repare o dito cano por vya que a ágoa dos ditos baños se saya libremente

     that he should open the sewer through which the water comes out of those baths, down under the stone arch, and he should clean and maintain and repair the aforementioned sewer so that the water of these baths comes out freely

4. quill, calamus of a feather

   Synonym: cálamo

5. corn stalk

   Synonym: cana

6. spout

   Synonyms: bico, biqueira, picho, torno

7. barrel (of a gun)
8. handle of an oar

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese cano, from Old Spanish cano, from Latin canus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkano̝/

Adjective

cano (feminine cana, masculine plural canos, feminine plural canas)

1. hoary, white-haired

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “cano” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cano”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cano”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cano”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos (“grey”), from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱas-. Compare Portuguese cão.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: cà‧no

Adjective

cano (feminine cana, masculine plural cani, feminine plural cane)

1. (obsolete, literary) hoary-haired, white-haired

   Synonym: canuto

   • 1516, Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso‎, Venice: Printed by Gabriel Giolito, published 1551, Canto XXXIV, page 162:

     Nel primo chioſtro una femina cana ¶ fila a un'aſpo trahea da tutti quelli

     In the outer porch, a dame of hoary hair ¶ yarns to her reel from all those [fleeces] drew

Related terms

• canizie
• canutezza
• canuto
• canutola

 

Anagrams

• anco, ocna

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kanō, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂n-é-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”). Compare carmen (“song”) (< *kanmen).

Cognates include Old Irish canaid, Welsh canu, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐌰 (hana, “cock”), Ancient Greek καναχέω (kanakhéō, “ring, clash, clang”), Russian канюк (kanjuk, “buzzard”), English hen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.noː/, [ˈkänoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/, [ˈkäːno]

Verb

canō (present infinitive canere, perfect active cecinī, supine cantum); third conjugation

1. (transitive) to sing, recite, play
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.1:

     Arma virumque cano […]

     I sing of weapons and a man […]

2. (transitive) to sound, play, blow (a trumpet), especially a military call
3. (transitive) to foretell, predict, prophesy

   Synonyms: praesāgiō, praemoneō, portendō, moneō, praedīcō, vāticinor

4. (transitive, Medieval Latin) to celebrate Mass
5. (transitive or intransitive, Medieval Latin) to pretend (that)
6. (intransitive) to sing, make music
7. (intransitive) to chant
8. (intransitive, of owls) to hoot
9. (intransitive, of a musical instrument) to sound, resound, play
10. (intransitive) to sound, play

Conjugation

Conjugation of canō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	canō	canis	canit	canimus	canitis	canunt
	imperfect	canēbam	canēbās	canēbat	canēbāmus	canēbātis	canēbant
	future	canam	canēs	canet	canēmus	canētis	canent
	perfect	cecinī	cecinistī	cecinit	cecinimus	cecinistis	cecinērunt, cecinēre
	pluperfect	cecineram	cecinerās	cecinerat	cecinerāmus	cecinerātis	cecinerant
	future perfect	cecinerō	cecineris	cecinerit	cecinerimus	cecineritis	cecinerint
passive	present	canor	caneris, canere	canitur	canimur	caniminī	canuntur
	imperfect	canēbar	canēbāris, canēbāre	canēbātur	canēbāmur	canēbāminī	canēbantur
	future	canar	canēris, canēre	canētur	canēmur	canēminī	canentur
	perfect	cantus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cantus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cantus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	canam	canās	canat	canāmus	canātis	canant
	imperfect	canerem	canerēs	caneret	canerēmus	canerētis	canerent
	perfect	cecinerim	cecinerīs	cecinerit	cecinerīmus	cecinerītis	cecinerint
	pluperfect	cecinissem	cecinissēs	cecinisset	cecinissēmus	cecinissētis	cecinissent
passive	present	canar	canāris, canāre	canātur	canāmur	canāminī	canantur
	imperfect	canerer	canerēris, canerēre	canerētur	canerēmur	canerēminī	canerentur
	perfect	cantus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	cantus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cane	—	—	canite	—
	future	—	canitō	canitō	—	canitōte	canuntō
passive	present	—	canere	—	—	caniminī	—
	future	—	canitor	canitor	—	—	canuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		canere	cecinisse	cantūrum esse	canī	cantum esse	cantum īrī
participles		canēns	—	cantūrus	—	cantus	canendus, canundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		canendī	canendō	canendum	canendō	cantum	cantū

Derived terms

• accanō/accinō
• būcina
• canor
• cantō
• -cen
• -cinor
• concinō
• incinō
• intercinō
• luscinia
• occanō
• occinō
• praecinō
• recinō
• sincinium
• succanō/succinō
• tricinium

 

Related terms

• carmen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.noː/, [ˈkäːnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/, [ˈkäːno]

Adjective

cānō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cānus (“white, hoary”)

References

• “cano”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cano”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cano 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)
• cano in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the orchestra is playing: symphōnīa canit (Verr. 3. 44. 105)
    
  • the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    
  • the trumpet sounds for the attack: classicum canit (B. C. 3. 82)
    
  • the retreat is sounded: signa receptui canunt
    
  • the retreat is sounded: receptui canitur (B. G. 7. 47)
    
  • (ambiguous) to sing the praises of some one (not canere aliquem: alicuius laudes (virtutes) canere
    
  • (ambiguous) to play on the lyre: fidibus canere
    
  • (ambiguous) to play the flute: tibiis or tibiā canere
    
  • (ambiguous) to sing to a flute accompaniment: ad tibiam or ad tibicinem canere
    
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cano”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish cano. Doublet of cão, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.no/
• Rhymes: -ano

Adjective

cano (plural canos, feminine cana, feminine plural canas)

1. Synonym of cão (white-haired)

Descendants

• Galician: cano

Portuguese

Etymology

From cana (“cane, reed”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.no/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.nu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.nu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.nu/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐnu, (Brazil) -ɐ̃nu
• Hyphenation: ca‧no

Noun

cano m (plural canos)

1. tube, pipe
   • 2012, João Pedro George, Como sobreviver a um terramoto em Portugal, Leya, →ISBN:

     Os terramotos (e as suas réplicas) costumam dar origem a incêndios (devido ao rebentamento das canalizações de gás ou das instalações de eletricidade) e a inundações (devido à rutura dos canos da água). Havendo aparelhos que ...

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2. channel
3. (firearms) barrel (metallic tube of a gun)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkano]

Noun

cano f

1. vocative singular of cană

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cānus (“white, hoary”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkano/ [ˈka.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: ca‧no

Adjective

cano (feminine cana, masculine plural canos, feminine plural canas)

1. hoary, white-haired, grey-haired
2. ancient, old (of a person)
3. (rare) white, snow-white, milky white

Derived terms

• cana

 

Related terms

• canecer / encanecer
• canicie
• canudo

 

Further reading

• “cano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkanɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːnɔ/, /ˈkanɔ/

Verb

cano

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of canu

Mutation

Mutated forms of cano

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cano	gano	nghano	chano

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.