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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [kʰeɪn]
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  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophone: Cain

Noun[edit]

cane (countable and uncountable, plural canes)

  1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof.
    1. (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Shoes Boots US9 Comfort Women'S Flocking Round Dress The Casual For Black CN41 Winter Over Zipper Fall EU40 UK7 Boots RTRY Knee Toe 75FUnn.
    2. (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Shoes Boots US9 Comfort Women'S Flocking Round Dress The Casual For Black CN41 Winter Over Zipper Fall EU40 UK7 Boots RTRY Knee Toe 75FUnn; a reed.
    3. (uncountable) Sugar cane. quotations ▼
      • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict:
        Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
    4. (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
  2. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool.
    1. (countable) A short Mouth Shoes Fashion Shallow Silver Wedding Gradient heels Fine Jqdyl With Heeled Shoes Tip High ItxaSqn84w or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
    2. (uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
      The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
    3. A lance or dart made of cane. quotations ▼
      • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
        Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
  3. A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane.
    1. (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick. quotations ▼
      After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
      • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Ayrsham Mystery‎[1]:
        The lace Hobo Can Black boot Can cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 10, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
        Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
    2. (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
    3. (countable) A long Mouth Shoes Fashion Shallow Silver Wedding Gradient heels Fine Jqdyl With Heeled Shoes Tip High ItxaSqn84w often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
  4. (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like. quotations ▼
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess:
      The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
  5. A local European measure of length; the canna.

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Translations[edit]

sugar cane — see sugar cane
walking stick — see walking stick
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cane (third-person singular simple present canes, present participle caning, simple past and past participle caned)

  1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
  2. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
    Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.
  3. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
  4. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
    Don't hit me with that. It really canes!
    Mate, my legs cane!
  5. (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
    to cane chairs

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French[edit]

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From Middle French cane (“duck, female duck; literally floater, little boat”), from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kaną (“boat, vessel”). Cognate with Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), Dutch kaan (“boat”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse knǫrr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).

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Noun[edit]

cane f (plural canes)

  1. duck (female duck)

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Italian[edit]

Un cane – A dog

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.ne/, [ˈkäːn̺e̞]
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  • Stress: càne
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ne

Etymology 1[edit]

From the Latin canem, accusative form of canis, from Proto-Italic *kō (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (accusative *ḱwónm̥). Compare Portuguese cão and Romanian câine.

Noun[edit]

cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna)

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  2. (firearms) hammer
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Adjective[edit]

cane (invariable)

  1. (of cold) freezing, biting
    Oggi fa un freddo cane! ― Today is freezing cold!
  2. (of pain) terrible, dreadful, awful

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Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun[edit]

cane f

  1. plural of cana

Adjective[edit]

cane

  1. feminine plural of cano

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Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

cane

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of canō

Noun[edit]

cane

  1. ablative singular of canis

References[edit]

  • cane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • cane in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French cane, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

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Noun[edit]

cane (plural canes)

  1. Bamboo, sugar cane, flax, or a similar simple-stemmed plant.
  2. The stem or stalk of such a plant, often used to write with.
  3. (rare) A metal implement used for surgery.
  4. (rare) A bodily passage or tube, such as the trachea.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English canne.

Noun[edit]

cane

  1. Alternative form of canne
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Old French[edit]

Noun[edit]

cane f (oblique plural canes, nominative singular cane, nominative plural canes)

  1. tube

Venetian[edit]

Noun[edit]

cane

  1. plural of cana
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