canonicus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κανονικός (kanonikós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.ni.kus/, [käˈnɔnɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.ni.kus/, [käˈnɔːnikus]

Noun

canonicus m (genitive canonicī); second declension

1. canon
2. clergyman
3. prebendary

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canonicus	canonicī
Genitive	canonicī	canonicōrum
Dative	canonicō	canonicīs
Accusative	canonicum	canonicōs
Ablative	canonicō	canonicīs
Vocative	canonice	canonicī

Adjective

canonicus (feminine canonica, neuter canonicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. canonical
2. regular (obeying rules)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	canonicus	canonica	canonicum		canonicī	canonicae	canonica
Genitive	canonicī	canonicae	canonicī		canonicōrum	canonicārum	canonicōrum
Dative	canonicō		canonicō		canonicīs
Accusative	canonicum	canonicam	canonicum		canonicōs	canonicās	canonica
Ablative	canonicō	canonicā	canonicō		canonicīs
Vocative	canonice	canonica	canonicum		canonicī	canonicae	canonica

Derived terms

• canonicatus
• canonicalis
• canonicē
• vīcus canonicus

Descendants

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: canunie
• Catalan: canonge
• → Catalan: canònic (learned)
• French: chanoine
• → French: canonique
• Italian: canonico
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cõẽgo
  • Galician: cóengo; → canónico
  • Portuguese: cónego, cônego; → canónico, canônico
• Spanish: canónigo; → canónico
• → Romanian: canonic
• → Middle Dutch: canonec
  • Dutch: kanunnik
• → English: canonic
• → German: Kanoniker
• → Old High German: canunih
  • Central Franconian: Knünich
    • >? German: Knilch
• → Polish: kanonik, kanoniczny

References

• “canonicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canonicus 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)
• canonicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.