canities

English

Etymology

From Latin cānitiēs (“gray hair, old age”).

Pronunciation

Noun

canities (uncountable)

  1. (uncommon, medicine) The condition of having gray hair.
    • 1896, George M. Gould, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine‎:
      Voigtel mentions the occurrence of canities almost suddenly.

References
  1. “canities”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. “canities”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  3. Gould, George Milbry, Scott, Richard John Ernst (1919) The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary, Third Edition, page 186

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

cānus (“hoary, gray”) +‎ -itiēs

Noun

cānitiēs f (genitive cānitiēī); fifth declension

  1. hoar; hoariness ; a grayish-white color
  2. grey hair
  3. old age

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cānitiēs cānitiēs
Genitive cānitiēī cānitiērum
Dative cānitiēī cānitiēbus
Accusative cānitiem cānitiēs
Ablative cānitiē cānitiēbus
Vocative cānitiēs cānitiēs
  • As with most fifth-declension nouns, only singular forms are attested in Classical Latin.

References
  • “canities”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “canities”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canities in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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