canicae

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with English honey, Albanian qengjë (“beehive”) and Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈka.nɪ.kae̯] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkaː.ni.t͡ʃe] === Noun === canicae f pl (genitive canicārum); first declension (plural only) a kind of bran ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, plural only. === References === “canicae”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “canicae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press