"canicule" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkanɪkjuːl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-canicule.wav [Southern-England] Forms: canicules [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French canicule, from Latin. Doublet of chenille. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|fr|canicule}} Borrowed from French canicule, {{der|en|la|-}} Latin, {{doublet|en|chenille}} Doublet of chenille Head templates: {{en-noun}} canicule (plural canicules)
  1. (archaic) Synonym of dog days. Tags: archaic Synonyms: dog days [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-canicule-en-noun-aoA5L9DL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 58 4 35 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 3 49 1 1

Noun [French]

IPA: /ka.ni.kyl/ Audio: Fr-Paris--canicule.ogg [Paris], LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-canicule.wav [Switzerland, Valais], LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-canicule.wav [France, Vosges] Forms: canicules [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Canicula and canicula. From the ancient association of Canicule (“Sirius, Dog Star”) with late summer heat. Doublet of chenille. Etymology templates: {{lbor|fr|la|Canicula}} Learned borrowing from Latin Canicula, {{doublet|fr|chenille}} Doublet of chenille Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} canicule f (plural canicules)
  1. the dog days of late summer Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-canicule-fr-noun-nr1NeUgS
  2. (by extension) heat wave, hot spell (regardless of the date, and especially when posing a health risk) Tags: broadly, feminine Synonyms: vague de chaleur
    Sense id: en-canicule-fr-noun-QcFB~qQl Categories (other): Pages with entries, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 46 3 49 1 1 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: caniculaire Related terms: chien, cagnard

Noun [Romanian]

IPA: [kaˈnikule]
Head templates: {{head|ro|noun form|g=f}} canicule f
  1. inflection of caniculă:
    indefinite plural
    Tags: feminine, form-of, indefinite, plural Form of: caniculă
    Sense id: en-canicule-ro-noun-~h3Sajrg Categories (other): Romanian entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Romanian entries with incorrect language header: 63 37
  2. inflection of caniculă:
    indefinite genitive/dative singular
    Tags: dative, feminine, form-of, genitive, indefinite, singular Form of: caniculă
    Sense id: en-canicule-ro-noun-gfXNc~sl

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-07-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (d9fa233 and 9e92f4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.