canela

Inherited from Latin candela. Doublet of the later borrowed form candela[1].

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kəˈnɛ.lə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kaˈnɛ.la/

canela f (plural caneles)

1. (archaic or dialectal) candle

• candela

• “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.

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin cannella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese canela and Spanish canilla.

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈnɛlɐ/

canela m (plural canelas)

1. cane or pipe
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), 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

2. shin
3. shinbone
4. leg (of a sock)
5. cinnamon

• Canelas
• caneleira
• Caneliñas

• “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.

• Hyphenation: ca‧ne‧la

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).

canela f (plural canelas)

1. cinnamon (spice)
2. shin

• caneleira

canela

1. inflection of canelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Portuguese canela, from Latin canella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnela/ [kaˈne.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: ca‧ne‧la

canela f (plural canelas)

1. cinnamon

• canal
• canilla
• caña
• cañón
• cannoli

canela f

1. feminine singular of canelo

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