The corpus record — Latin

caneo

caneo · v. n

to be gray

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 17s 1 · 83.33/10k
Eclogues 5 · 11.02/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
Commemoratio professorum Burdigalensium 2 · 7.61/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
de Bello Gothico 2 · 4.96/10k
Elegiae 6 · 4.86/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Silvae 11 · 4.39/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 3 · 4.3/10k
C. Caligula 3 · 3.93/10k

Densest 12 of 87 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cānĕo — Lewis & Short

cānĕo, ui, 2, v. n.canus,

I to be gray or hoary, be white (poet. or in post-Aug. prose); P. a.: cānens, entis, gray, grayish, hoary, white: temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus, Verg. A. 5, 416; cf. Tac. G. 31: canens senecta, Verg. A. 10, 192: canet in igne cinis, Ov. A. A. 2, 440: canens gelu, white, id. Tr. 5, 2, 66; Sil. 1, 206; pruina, id. 3, 534: canentia lilia, Ov. M. 12, 411: dum gramina canent, Verg. G. 3, 325; 2, 13: canuerint herbae, Ov. F. 3, 880; Juv. 14, 144; Ov. M. 1, 110 (cf. id. ib. 6, 456; and id. F. 5, 357); Sil. 4, 362.

In the wild

canendus Statius, Thebais 1.45
canenti Ovid, Fasti 4.723
canentes Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 2.19
canebatur Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.7
canendus Statius, Thebais 8.552
canuit Claudian, de Bello Gothico 1.35

6 of 275 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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