Noun: canela
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | canela |
| Plural m | canelas |
Sample Sentences
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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) [c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 254:]
Nouns inflected like canela
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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 See: Latin Nouns '
cannella', Portuguese Nouns '
canela', Spanish Nouns '
canilla', Catalan Nouns '
canell'.
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