Word origin
[1885–90; ‹ NL
Canidae, equiv. to
Can(
is) a genus, including the dog and wolf (L: dog) +
-idae -id2]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: foregut, reactor, roller coaster, seminar, sensitization-id is a suffix occurring in English derivatives of modern Latin taxonomic names, esp.zoological families and classes; such derivatives are usually nouns denoting a singlemember of the taxon or adjectives with the sense “pertaining to” the taxon. Otherwords that use the affix -id include: arachnid