cão
Galician edit
Noun edit
cão m (plural cães, feminine cadela, feminine plural cadelas, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of can
References edit
- “cão” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin cānum. Doublet of cano, a borrowing from Old Spanish.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cão (plural cãos, feminine cãa, feminine plural cãas)
- white-haired
- Synonym: cano
Descendants edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Central-West Brazil): (file) - Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: cão
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese can, from Latin canis, canem. Compare Galician and Spanish can.
Noun edit
cão m (plural cães, feminine cadela, feminine plural cadelas)
- dog
- (colloquial, epithetic) the Devil
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Satã
Usage notes edit
In Brazil, cão is somewhat formal, and cachorro is the most common term in neutral or informal contexts.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cão, from Latin cānus (“gray”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas-. Cognate with Spanish cano.
Adjective edit
cão (feminine cã, masculine plural cãos, feminine plural cãs)
- white-haired
- Synonym: grisalho
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
From Persian خان. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
cão m (plural cãos)
Further reading edit
- cão on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician countable nouns
- Galician terms spelled with Ã
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician reintegrationist forms
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Old Galician-Portuguese doublets
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas
- Old Galician-Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese 1-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃/1 syllable
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese terms derived from Persian
- European Portuguese
- pt:Dogs
- pt:Mammals