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Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈnaɾjo/
- Rhymes: -aɾjo
- Hyphenation: ca‧na‧rio
Adjective
canario (feminine canaria, masculine plural canarios, feminine plural canarias)
- of, from or relating to Canary Islands
Noun
canario m (plural canarios, feminine canaria, feminine plural canarias)
- native or inhabitant of Canary Islands
Noun
canario m (plural canarios)
- canary
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish canario.
Adjective
canario (feminine canaria, masculine plural canari, feminine plural canarie)
- of, from or relating to Canary Islands
Noun
canario m (plural canari, feminine canaria)
- native or inhabitant of Canary Islands
Further reading
- canario in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
canāriō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of canārius
Spanish
Etymology
From Canarias (“the Canary Islands”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈnaɾjo/
- Rhymes: -aɾjo
- Syllabification: ca‧na‧rio
Adjective
canario (feminine canaria, masculine plural canarios, feminine plural canarias)
- of, from or relating to the Canary Islands
Derived terms
Noun
canario m (plural canarios)
- canary (bird)
Descendants
Noun
canario m (plural canarios, feminine canaria, feminine plural canarias)
- native or inhabitant of the Canary Islands (male or of unspecified gender)
Further reading
- “canario”, 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
- Trapero, Maximiano (1991) “Variantes e invariantes de contenido en las definiciones del Diccionario académico: sobre el(los) significado(s) de canario”, in Boletín de la Real Academia Española, volume LXXI, pages 245–273