canalis

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Latin

Etymology

For *cannālis, from canna (reed, cane), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, reed).

Pronunciation

Noun

canālis m (genitive canālis); third declension

  1. A pipe, spout.
  2. A gutter, ditch.
  3. A groove, channel, canal, conduit, duct.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in ).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative canālis canālēs
Genitive canālis canālium
Dative canālī canālibus
Accusative canālem canālēs
canālīs
Ablative canālī canālibus
Vocative canālis canālēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Dalmatian: canul
    • Italian: canale (see there for further descendants)
    • Sicilian: canali
  • Old French: chenel (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan:
  • Rhaeto-Romance
  • Venetian: canal
  • West Iberian
  • Vulgar Latin: *canālia
Borrowings

References

  • canalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • canalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • canalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • canalis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
  • canalis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canalis”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • canalis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • canalis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN