candela

See also: Candela, candéla, candelă, and candéła

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation) cd

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candēla (“candle”). Doublet of candle and chandelle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kænˈdɛlə/, /kænˈdiːlə/, /ˈkændɪlə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kænˈdiːlə/, /kænˈdɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə, -iːlə, -ændɪlə
• Hyphenation: can‧de‧la

Noun

candela (plural candelas or (rare) candelae)

1. In the International System of Units, the base unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 10¹² hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1/683 watt per steradian. Symbol: cd

Related terms

• candelabrum
• candid
• candidate
• candle
• candlepower
• candlestick
• chandler
• chandlery

 

Translations

unit of luminous intensity

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坎德拉 (zh) (kǎndélā)

• Czech: kandela (cs) f
• Dutch: candela (nl)
• Esperanto: kandelo
• Estonian: kandela
• Finnish: kandela (fi)
• French: candela (fr) f
• Galician: candela (gl) f
• Georgian: კანდელა (ḳandela)
• German: Candela (de) n
• Greek: καντέλα f (kantéla)
• Hindi: कैण्डेला (kaiṇḍelā)
• Hungarian: kandela (hu)
• Indonesian: kandela (id)
• Japanese: カンデラ (kandera)
• Korean: 칸델라 (kandella)
• Latvian: kandela f
• Malay: kandela
• Polish: kandela (pl) f
• Portuguese: candela (pt) f
• Romanian: candelă (ro) f
• Russian: канде́ла (ru) f (kandɛ́la)
• Spanish: candela (es) f
• Swedish: candela (sv) c
• Uzbek: svecha (uz)

Further reading

• candela on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• canaled, decanal

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candela, with Ecclesiastical Latin influence. Doublet of the older inherited form canela.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kənˈdɛ.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kanˈdɛ.la/

Noun

candela f (plural candeles)

1. candle

Synonyms

• canela (archaic or dialectal)

Derived terms

• candeler
• candelera
• candeleta

Related terms

• candelilla
• canelobre

Further reading

• “candela” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “candela” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “candela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish candela, from Latin candela.

Noun

candela

1. candle

Related terms

• candelabra

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candela (“candle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnˈdeː.laː/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: can‧de‧la

Noun

candela f (plural candela's)

1. candela

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candēla. Doublet of chandelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.de.la/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

candela f (plural candelas)

1. candela (SI unit of luminous intensity)

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin candēla, derived from candeō (“I shine, glow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈde.la/
• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: can‧dé‧la

Noun

candela f (plural candele)

1. candle
2. Ellipsis of candela di accensione (“spark plug”).
3. candela (SI unit of luminous intensity)
4. (slang) snot
5. chandelle (aerobatic maneuver)

Derived terms

• candelaggio
• candelaio
• candeliere

Related terms

• candelabro

References

• candela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• Calenda, caldane

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Latin

Etymology

From candeō (“shine, glitter; glow”) +‎ -ēla.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kanˈdeː.la/, [kän̪ˈd̪eːɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kanˈde.la/, [kän̪ˈd̪ɛːlä]

Noun

candēla f (genitive candēlae); first declension

1. A light made of wax or tallow; tallow candle or taper.
2. A fire.
3. A cord covered with wax.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	candēla	candēlae
Genitive	candēlae	candēlārum
Dative	candēlae	candēlīs
Accusative	candēlam	candēlās
Ablative	candēlā	candēlīs
Vocative	candēla	candēlae

First declension.

Italo-Western declension of *candēla
Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	*candẹ́la	*candẹ́lę
genitive	*candẹ́lę	*candẹlárọ
dative	*candẹ́lę	*candẹ́lis
accusative-ablative	*candẹ́lã	*candẹ́las

Derived terms

• candēlābrum

Related terms

• candefaciō
• candēlābrārius
• candēns
• candentia
• candeō
• candescō
• candicō
• candidus
• candificō
• candor

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: candela, candelu
  • Italian: candela
  • Sicilian: cannila
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: cjandele, čhandele
  • Lombard: candéla
  • Piedmontese: candèila, candèira, candèlia, candaia
  • Romansch: chandaila
  • Venetian: candéła
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: chandoile, chandele, chandeile
    • French: chandelle
      • Haitian Creole: chandèl
      • → Norman: chandelle
    • Gallo: chandelle
    • Norman: candelle
    • Picard: candelle
    • Walloon: tchandèle
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: candela
  • Catalan: canela
  • Occitan: candèla; chandela
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Extremaduran: candela
  • Old Leonese: *candela
    • Asturian: candela
    • Leonese: candela
    • Mirandese: candela
  • Old Portuguese: candea
    • Galician: candea
    • Portuguese: candeia (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: candela
    • Ladino: kandela
    • Spanish: candela (see there for further descendants)
• → Albanian: *këndell(i)
  • Albanian: këndell
• → Ancient Greek: κανδήλη (kandḗlē)
  • Ancient Greek: κανδήλη (kandḗlē), κανδήλα (kandḗla), κανδῆλα (kandêla), κανδέλα (kandéla), καντῆλα (kantêla), καντήλα (kantḗla)
    • Greek: καντήλα (kantíla)
      • → Aromanian: cãndilã
      • → Romanian: candelă
  • → Classical Syriac: ܩܢܕܝܠܐ‎, ܩܢܕܠܐ‎ (qandēlāʾ)
    • → Arabic: قِنْدِيل‎ (qindīl), قَنْدِيل‎ (qandīl) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Georgian: კანდელი (ḳandeli)
    • → Laz: კანდელი (ǩandeli)
  • → Old Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղն (kantʿełn)
    • Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղ (kantʿeł); կանթէղ (kantʿēł); գանթեղ (gantʿeł); գանթէղ (gantʿēł); գանթէ՛ղ (gantʿḗł); կա՛նթիղ (kántʿił); կանտեղ (kanteł)
      • → Udi: կանթեղ (kantʿeł, “church lamp”)
  • → Old East Slavic: кандило (kandilo)
    • Russian: канди́ло (kandílo), канде́ль (kandélʹ),
  • → Old Church Slavonic: канъдило (kanŭdilo)
    • → Macedonian: кандило (kandilo)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: кандило

      Latin: kandilo

• → Basque: kandela
• → Proto-Brythonic: *kantuɨll (via Vulgar Latin *cantēlla)
  • Breton: kantol
  • Cornish: kantol
  • Old Welsh: cannuill
    • Middle Welsh: canhwyll
      • Welsh: cannwyll
• → Catalan: candela
• → Proto-Norse: *ᚲᚢᚾᛞᛁᛚᚨ (*kundila)
  • Old Norse: kyndill
    • Faroese: kyndil
    • Icelandic: kyndill
    • Old Swedish: kyndil
    • Old Danish: kyndæl
  • → Proto-Finnic:
    • Estonian: küünal
    • Finnish: kynttilä (or via Old Swedish)
    • Ingrian: küntteli
    • Votic: tšüntteli
• → Old English: candel (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: caindel (see there for further descendants)

References

• “candela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “candela”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• candela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• candela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “candela”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “candela”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1973), “կանթեղ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 514

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.de.lɑ/

Noun

candela

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of candel

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candela (cf. English candela). Doublet of the inherited candeia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɐ̃ˈdɛ.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: can‧de‧la

Noun

candela f (plural candelas)

1. (physics) candela (unit of measurement of luminous intensity)

Related terms

• candeia

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin candēla. Doublet of candil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈdela/ [kãn̪ˈd̪e.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: can‧de‧la

Noun

candela f (plural candelas)

1. candle

   Synonym: vela

2. (physics) candela (physical unit)
3. combustible

   Synonym: lumbre

4. (especially Cuba, Venezuela) fire, light

   Synonyms: fuego, incendio

   • 1997, Luis Marquetti; Sergio González Siaba (lyrics and music), “El Cuarto de Tula”, performed by Buena Vista Social Club:

     El cuarto de Tula, le cogió candela / Se quedó dormida y no apagó la vela

     Tula's room caught fire / She fell asleep and didn't put out the candle

Related terms

• candelabro
• candelero
• echar candela
• matacandelas
• ser candela

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: kandila
• → Limos Kalinga: kandela
• → Masbatenyo: kandila
• → Papiamentu: kandela
• → Tagalog: kandila

Further reading

• “candela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Noun

candela c

1. candela

References

• candela in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• candela in Svensk ordbok (SO)