canuto

== Italian == === Etymology === Inherited from Late Latin cānūtus, from Latin cānus. Cognate with French chenu. By surface analysis, cano (“white-haired”) +‎ -uto (“-ed”, “having [the object expressed by the noun]”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈnu.to/ Rhymes: -uto Hyphenation: ca‧nù‧to === Adjective === canuto (feminine canuta, masculine plural canuti, feminine plural canute) grey, hoary, white (of hair) (by extension) hoary-haired (figurative, poetic) old, serious, staid (by extension, literary) covered in white, specifically: besnowed, snow-covered, snowy (of mountains) foamy, spumescent (of seawater) ==== Derived terms ==== incanutire semicanuto ==== Related terms ==== canizie cano canutezza === Anagrams === tucano == Latin == === Adjective === cānūtō dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cānūtus == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈnuto/ [kaˈnu.t̪o] Rhymes: -uto Syllabification: ca‧nu‧to === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Mozarabic *qannût, from Vulgar Latin *cannūtus (“resembling sugarcane”), from Latin canna (“cane”). ==== Noun ==== canuto m (plural canutos) tube Synonym: tubo (slang) joint, reefer Synonyms: (Honduras) bate, (Honduras) carruco, leño, porro ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From Juan Bautista Canut de Bon Gil, a Spanish Methodist preacher, formerly a Jesuit, who founded several evangelical churches in Chile. ==== Adjective ==== canuto (feminine canuta, masculine plural canutos, feminine plural canutas) (slang) awesome; wonderful ===== Derived terms ===== ==== Noun ==== canuto m (plural canutos) (slang, Chile, derogatory) evangelical === Further reading === “canuto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 === Anagrams === cuánto cuanto