caneo
Latin > English
caneo canere, canui, - V :: be/become covered in white; be hoary, be white/gray (with age)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
cānĕo: ui, 2, v. n. canus,
I to be gray or hoary, be white (poet. or in post-Aug. prose); P. a.: cānens, entis, gray, grayish, hoary, white: temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus, Verg. A. 5, 416; cf. Tac. G. 31: canens senecta, Verg. A. 10, 192: canet in igne cinis, Ov. A. A. 2, 440: canens gelu, white, id. Tr. 5, 2, 66; Sil. 1, 206; pruina, id. 3, 534: canentia lilia, Ov. M. 12, 411: dum gramina canent, Verg. G. 3, 325; 2, 13: canuerint herbae, Ov. F. 3, 880; Juv. 14, 144; Ov. M. 1, 110 (cf. id. ib. 6, 456; and id. F. 5, 357); Sil. 4, 362.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
cānĕō,¹³ ŭī, ēre (canus), intr., être blanc : Virg. En. 5, 416 ; G. 3, 325 ; Ov. M. 1, 110.
Latin > German (Georges)
cāneo, uī, ēre (canus), grau-, weißgrau sein, temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus, Verg.: gramina canent (sc. rore), Verg.: ager canet aristis, Ov. – Partic. canēns, entis, grau, graulich, senecta, Verg.: gelu, Ov.: pruina, Sil. – u. mattgrün, lilia, Ov.: oliva, Ov.