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cana

cana is a Latin form of canus, meaning “white, gray, hoary; (cani) gray hairs”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 2.51: Ipse ego cana legam tenera lanugine mala,

Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.590: Cana salicta dabant nutritaque populus unda

Plautus, Casina 2.3.239: Ého tu nihili, cána culex, vix téneor quin quae décent te dicam,

All forms of canus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.