Etymology

canities

C3A1N1I1T1I1E1S1

Today it means: The condition of having gray hair. Full definition →

Latin cānitiēs
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Latin · derived fromcānitiēs“gray hair, old age”
  2. English todaycanities

From Latin cānitiēs (“gray hair, old age”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.