candela
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (abbreviation) cd
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin candēla (“candle”). Doublet of candle and chandelle.
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /kænˈdɛlə/, /kænˈdiːlə/, /ˈkændɪlə/
- (US) IPA(key): /kænˈdēlə/, /kænˈdelə/
- Rhymes: -ɛlə, -iːlə, -ændɪlə
- Hyphenation: can‧de‧la
NounEdit
candela (plural candelas or (rare) candelae)
- 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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
unit of luminous intensity
Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed (in this form) from Latin candela, with Ecclesiastical Latin influence. Compare the older inherited form canela[1].
NounEdit
candela f (plural candeles)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “candela” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
Further readingEdit
- “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.
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin candela (“candle”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
candela f (plural candela's)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin candēla. Doublet of chandelle.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
candela f (plural candelas)
- candela (SI unit of luminous intensity)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin candēla, derived from candeō (“I shine, glow”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
candela f (plural candele)
- candle
- Ellipsis of candela di accensione (“spark plug”)
- candela (SI unit of luminous intensity)
- (slang) snot
- chandelle (aerobatic maneuver)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- candela in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From candeō (“shine, glitter; glow”) + -ēla.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kanˈdeː.la/, [kän̪ˈd̪eːɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kanˈde.la/, [kɑn̪ˈd̪ɛːlɑ]
NounEdit
candēla f (genitive candēlae); first declension
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | candēla | candēlae |
| Genitive | candēlae | candēlārum |
| Dative | candēlae | candēlīs |
| Accusative | candēlam | candēlās |
| Ablative | candēlā | candēlīs |
| Vocative | candēla | candēlae |
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DescendantsEdit
- Gallo-Italic
- Lombard: candéla
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: chandoile, chandele, chandeile
- Old Occitan: candela
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Venetian: candéła
- West Iberian
- → Albanian: *këndell(i)
- Albanian: këndell
- → Ancient Greek: κανδήλη (kandḗlē)
- Ancient Greek: κανδήλη (kandḗlē), κανδήλα (kandḗla), κανδῆλα (kandêla), κανδέλα (kandéla), καντῆλα (kantêla), καντήλα (kantḗla)
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܢܕܝܠܐ, ܩܢܕܠܐ (qandēlāʾ)
- → Georgian: კანდელი (ḳandeli)
- → Old Armenian: կանթեղ (kantʿeł), կանթեղն (kantʿełn)
- → Old East Slavic: кандило (kandilo)
- → Old Church Slavonic: канъдило (kanŭdilo)
- → Basque: kandela
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kantuɨll (via Vulgar Latin *cantēlla)
- → Catalan: candela
- → Proto-Norse: *ᚲᚢᚾᛞᛁᛚᚨ (*kundila)
- → Old English: candel (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Irish: caindel (see there for further descendants)
ReferencesEdit
- 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 [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
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin candela (cf. English candela). Doublet of the inherited candeia.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: can‧de‧la
NounEdit
candela f (plural candelas)
Related termsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin candēla. Doublet of candil.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
candela f (plural candelas)
- candle
- Synonym: vela
- (physics) candela (physical unit)
- combustible
- Synonym: lumbre
- (especially Cuba, Venezuela) fire, light
- 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
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DescendantsEdit
- → Cebuano: kandila
- → Limos Kalinga: kandela
- → Masbatenyo: kandila
- → Papiamentu: kandela
- → Tagalog: kandila
Further readingEdit
- “candela” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
candela c