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): /kænˈdēlə/, /kænˈdelə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə, -iːlə, -ændɪlə
• Hyphenation: can‧de‧la

Noun

candela (plural candelas)

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 (kǎndélā)

• Czech: kandela (cs) f
• Dutch: candela (nl)
• 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 (in this form) from Latin candela, with Ecclesiastical Latin influence. Compare the older inherited form canela.

Noun

candela f (plural candeles)

1. candle

Related terms

• 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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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/, [kän̪ˈd̪eːl̺ä]
• 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

Anagrams

• caldane

References

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kanˈdeː.la/, [kan̪ˈd̪eː.ɫ̪a]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kanˈde.la/, [kan̪ˈd̪ɛː.la]

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

Derived terms

• candēlābrum

Related terms

• candefaciō
• candēlābrārius
• candēns
• candentia

• candeō
• candescō
• candicō

• candidus
• candificō
• candor

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: candéla
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: candela
  • Sicilian: cannila
• Old French: chandoile, chandele, chandeile
  • Gallo: chandelle
  • French: chandelle
    • Haitian Creole: chandèl
    • → Norman: chandelle
  • Norman: candelle
  • Picard: candelle
  • Walloon: tchandèle
• Old Occitan: candela
  • Catalan: canela
  • Occitan: candèla
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: cjandele, čhandele
  • Romansch: chandaila
• Venetian: candéła
• West Iberian
  • 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)

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• → 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)
  • → Old Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղն (kantʿełn)
    • Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղ (kantʿeł)
      • → 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
• → Brythonic:
  • Breton: kantol
  • Cornish: kantol
• → Catalan: candela
• → Middle Welsh: canhwyll
  • Welsh: cannwyll
• → Norse: *ᚲᚢᚾᛞᛁᛚᚨ (*kundila)
  • Old Norse: kyndill
    • Faroese: kyndil
    • Icelandic: kyndill
    • Old Swedish: kyndil
    • Old Danish: kyndæl
  • → 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, 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 [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), volume II, 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press, page 514

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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.

Noun

candela f (plural candelas)

1. candle
2. (physics) candela (physical unit)
3. combustible
4. fire, light

Synonyms

• (candle): vela
• (combustible): lumbre
• (fire): fuego, incendio

Related terms

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

Descendants

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

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Swedish

Noun

candela c

1. candela