canícula
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Learned borrowing from Latin canicula.
Noun edit
canícula f (plural canículas)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
canícula f (plural canículas)
References edit
- ^ “canícula” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin canicula. Doublet of canijo (and the feminine canija).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canícula f (plural canículas)
- dog days (the days between early July and early September when Sirius rises and sets with the Sun)
Further reading edit
- “canícula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014