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canes

canes is a Latin form of canis, meaning “dog”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 154 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 56: … ; utilius est autem absolvi innocentem quam nocentem causam non dicere. Anseribus cibaria publice locantur et canes aluntur in Capitolio ut significent si fures venerint. at fures internoscere non possunt, significant tamen s …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 1.12.9: Canes elusit. Silva tum excepit ferum,

All forms of canis (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.