canela
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin candela. Doublet of the later borrowed form candela.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canela f (plural caneles)
References edit
- ^ “candela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading edit
- “canela” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “canela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cannella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese canela, Spanish canilla, Catalan canell
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canela m (plural canelas)
- cane or pipe
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 254:
- Et aquel jnstrumẽto cõ que tangia Mercurio era nouo, et avia em el sete canelas
- That instrument Mercury was playing with was new, and it has seven pipes in it
- shin
- shinbone
- leg (of a sock)
- cinnamon
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “canela” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “canela” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “canela” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “canela” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ca‧ne‧la
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin cannella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).
Noun edit
canela f (plural canelas)
- cinnamon (spice)
- (colloquial) shin
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
canela
- inflection of canelar:
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese canela, from Latin canella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
canela f (plural canelas)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Adjective edit
canela f
Further reading edit
- “canelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014