cão

cão m (plural cães, feminine cadela, feminine plural cadelas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of can

• “cão” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Inherited from Latin cānum. Doublet of cano, a borrowing from Old Spanish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkã.u/

cão (plural cãos, feminine cãa, feminine plural cãas)

2. white-haired

   Synonym: cano

• Galician: Cao
• Portuguese: cão

 

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• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: cão

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese can, from Latin canis, canem. Compare Galician and Spanish can.

cão m (plural cães, feminine cadela, feminine plural cadelas)

1. dog

   Synonyms: (Brazil) cachorro, (rare) perro

2. (colloquial, epithetic) the Devil

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:Satã

In Brazil, cão is somewhat formal, and cachorro is the most common term in neutral or informal contexts.

 

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cão, from Latin cānus (“gray”), from Proto-Italic *kaznos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱas-. Cognate with Spanish cano.

cão (feminine cã, masculine plural cãos, feminine plural cãs)

2. white-haired

   Synonym: grisalho

• cã

From Persian خان. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• cã (Brazil)

cão m (plural cãos)

1. (Portugal) khan

•   cão on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt