canicula

From canis (“dog”) +‎ -cula. The sense ‘dogfish, shark’ is probably a calque of Ancient Greek σκύλιον (skúlion).

canīcula f (genitive canīculae); first declension

1. Diminutive of canis
2. little dog
3. dogfish, shark

First-declension noun.

• Canīcula (“Dog Star”)
• canīculāris

• “canicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “canicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canicula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• canicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): [kaˈnikula]

canicula f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of caniculă