canicae

From Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with English honey, Albanian qengjë (“beehive”) and Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ni.kae̯/, [ˈkänɪkäe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ni.t͡ʃe/, [ˈkäːnit͡ʃe]

canicae f pl (genitive canicārum); first declension (plural only)

1. a kind of bran

First-declension noun, plural only.

• 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