The corpus record — Latin

canities

canities · f

a gray

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Where it lives

Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
In Eutropium 3 · 4.18/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

cānĭtĭes — Lewis & Short

cānĭtĭes (cānĭtĭa, f.canus,

Plin. 31, 7, 42, § 91; 11, 37, 64, § 169; cf. Charis. p. 41 P.), em, ē (other cases not in use),

I a gray or grayish-white color, hoariness (poet. or in post-Aug. prose): lupi, Ov. M. 1, 238; folia lanatiore canitie, Plin. 21, 20, 84, § 147; 37, 11, 73, § 191: sparsa marmoris, id. 36, 7, 11, § 55.—Esp. freq. of the hair, Ov. M. 10, 425; 7, 289; Plin. 11, 37, 64, § 169; cf. id. 11, 37, 47, § 131.—Hence,

II Transf.

A (Abstr. pro concr.) Gray hair: canitiem terră atque infuso pulvere foedans, Cat. 64, 224; imitated by Ov. M. 8, 528; cf. also Verg. A. 12, 611: canitiem multo deformat pulvere, id. ib. 10, 844; 6, 300; Ov. M. 13, 492; Luc. 8, 57: femina canitiem Germanis inficit herbis, Ov. A. A. 3, 163.—

B (Effect. pro causa.) A hoary age, old age (cf.: canitiem sibi et longos promiserat annos, Verg. A. 10, 549: donec virenti canities abest Morosa, Hor. C. 1, 9, 17; 2, 11, 8.

In the wild

canitiemque Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.492
canitiem Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.658
canitiem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.6
canities Statius, Thebais 11.341
canitiem Propertius, Elegiae 1.8b.46
canitie Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.7.p2

6 of 79 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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