, from Canīcula, a semantic loan of Ancient Greek Κῠ́ων ("the Dog") in reference to Sirius, which appears in as κῠ́ων Ὠρίωνος in its elided accusative form κύν’ Ὠρίωνος in Iliad XXII.22.
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