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canum

canum is a Latin form of canis, meaning “dog”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 73 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.28: … horte mea reicies, inquit. quid? ista cohors quorum hominum est? Volusi haruspicis et Corneli medici et horum canum quos tribunal meum vides lambere; nam de conventu nullum umquam iudicem nec recuperatorem dedit; iniquos decu …

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.31.4: … praeter Othonem non puto nos ullum adversarium habituros. sed eum ipsum tu poteris movere, facilius etiam si Canum haberes. o gulam insulsam! pudet me patris. rescribes si quid voles.

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.