canela

See also: Canela and canëla

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin candela. Doublet of the later borrowed form candela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈnɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈnə.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈnɛ.la]

Noun

canela f (plural caneles)

1. (archaic or Valencia) Alternative form of candela

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈnɛlɐ/

Noun

canela m (plural canelas)

1. 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

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

Derived terms

• Canelas
• caneleira
• Caneliñas

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “canela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “canela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈnɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈnɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈnɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈnɛ.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧ne‧la

Etymology 1

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

canela f (plural canelas)

1. cinnamon (spice)
2. (colloquial) shin

Related terms

• caneleira
• Canela

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

canela

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnela/ [kaˈne.la]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: ca‧ne‧la

Noun

canela f (plural canelas)

1. cinnamon

Derived terms

• árbol de la canela
• canela blanca
• flor de la canela
• ser canela en rama

 

Related terms

• canal
• canilla
• cannoli
• caña
• cañón

 

Adjective

canela f

1. feminine singular of canelo

Further reading

• “canelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10