canine · ravenously hungry; hungry as a hog · ravenously hungry; hungry as a hog Marcos siempre estaba canino después de tomar su medicación. Marcos was always hungry as a hog after taking his medication.
a dog, a hound (animal) · a ‘dog’ constellation or ‘dog’ star: either Canis Major, its brightest star Sirius; or Canis Minor, its brightest star Procyon · a dog, a hound, a bounder, a blackguard, a cad, a heel (foul person)
çekim: çoğul canēs · tamlayan canum
eş: lātrātor
köken: From earlier canēs. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ, *ḱun- (“dog”), from earlier *ḱwón-s, whence also Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), though the expected outcome was formally much altered. The -a- gained a number of ad hoc explanations, such as a shift of *-wo- to *-wa- in open syllables, or of *-n̥- to -an- before vowels. The initial unrounded c- must have been…