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canicular days

canicular days noun: synonym of dog days.

Noun

canicular days pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) Synonym of dog days.
    • A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice.a. 1398, John Trevisa, transl. Bartholomeus Anglicus as De Proprietatibus Rerum (MS BL Add. 27944), Vol. I, p. 628
    Synonyms:
    dog days

Synonyms of canicular days

Origin of canicular days

Calque of Latin diēs caniculārēs (literally “puppy days”), from Canīcula (“the Puppy”), a semantic loan of Ancient Greek Κῠ́ων (Kŭ́ōn, “the Dog”) in reference to Sirius, which appears in Epic Greek as κῠ́ων Ὠρίωνος (kŭ́ōn Ōríōnos, literally “Orion’s dog”) in its elided accusative form κύν’ Ὠρίωνος (kún’ Ōríōnos) in Iliad XXII.29.

Questions about canicular days

What does canicular days mean?
Canicular days means synonym of dog days.
What part of speech is canicular days?
Canicular days is a noun.

Words near canicular days in the dictionary

  1. canicrossers
  2. Canicula
  3. canicular
  4. canicular cycle
  5. canicular cycles
  6. canicular days
  7. canicular period
  8. canicular periods
  9. canicule
  10. canid
  11. canidate

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