English → Latin
“canai” in Latin
canālisa pipe, spout, channel, conduit; a gutter, ditch; a groove, channel, canal, conduit, ductfossaa ditch, trench, moat, fosse; a gutter, waterway; a furrow drawn to mark foundationsdēprimōto press down; to depress; to suppress, repress or silence; to disparageprōmittōto send forth; to promise
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
canai s.
canalis, fossa (when it connects two rivers, or pieces of water): to make a canal, fossam facere, deprimere. They had promised to make a navigable canal from the Lake Avernus to the mouths of the Tiber, ab Lacu Averno navigabilem fossam usque ad ostia Tiberina depressuros, promiserant (Tac., Ann., 15, 42, 2).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for canai?
- The usual Latin words for “canai” are canālis, fossa, dēprimō; also prōmittō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.