Noun: canada
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | canada |
| Plural f | canadas |
Sample Sentences
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dúas cabaaças de vjño de senllas medias canadas et quatro capões (two gourds of wine, each one containing half a canada, and four capons) [1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández, editor, Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago, page 39:]
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dous picheles dstanno grandes et dous pequenos et duas canadas grandes (two large tin tankards and two small ones and two large jugs) [1373, Enrique Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:]
Nouns inflected like canada
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested since the 12th century in Medieval Latin documents. Either from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”), or from Latin canna (“canne”), and a suffix -ada. Cognate with English can, German Kanne. See: Latin Nouns '
canna', English Nouns '
can', German Nouns '
Kanne'.
Verbs referencing "canada"
Asturian Nouns
cañada.
Translations