canicula

See also: Canicula, canícula, and caniculă

Latin

Etymology

From canis (“dog”) +‎ -cula. The sense ‘dogfish, shark’ is probably a calque of Ancient Greek σκύλιον (skúlion).

Noun

canīcula f (genitive canīculae); first declension

diminutive of canis
little dog
dogfish, shark

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	canīcula	canīculae
genitive	canīculae	canīculārum
dative	canīculae	canīculīs
accusative	canīculam	canīculās
ablative	canīculā	canīculīs
vocative	canīcula	canīculae

Derived terms

Canīcula (“Dog Star”)
canīculāris

Descendants

Inherited:

Franco-Provençal: chenilyi
French: chenille (“caterpillar”)
- → Catalan: xenilla
- → English: chenille
- → Italian: ciniglia
- → Romanian: șenilă
- → Russian: шине́ль (šinélʹ), шени́лл (šeníll)
Galician: quenlla
Spanish: canijo

Borrowed:

→ Byzantine Greek: κανίκλειος (kaníkleios)
→ Catalan: canícula
→ French: canicule
→ Italian: canicola (“shark”)
→ Portuguese: canícula
→ Romanian: caniculă
→ Spanish: canícula
→ English: Canicula
→ Polish: kanikuła
→ Russian: кани́кулы (kaníkuly)

References

“canicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“canicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"canicula", 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)
canicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kaˈnikula]

Noun

canicula f

definite nominative/accusative singular of caniculă