candelae

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1964, Sölve Stenström, Optics and the Eye, pages 31, 32:

The luminous intensity of this source of light has been defined as 60 candelae per cm² in the direction of the normal to the surface. […] Nowadays however, candelae per m² are often used as the unit for luminance.

1971, Symposium on Electroretinography: Proceedings of the 7th Symposium of ISCERG, September 14-18, 1969, page 23:

Fig. 1 / The visual recovery in the dark after pre-adaptation to 15.5×10³ photopic candelae /m², as studied in the Goldmann and Weekers’ adaptometer.

1982, Duane’s Biomedical Foundations of Ophthalmology, volume 2, →ISBN, “Luminous Intensity”, page 9, columns 1–2:

Candelae are calculated on the basis of a perfect or “ideal blackbody” irradiation equal to solidifying platinum at a temperature of 2042 K. The luminous intensity of such a system is 60 candelae/sq cm when measured […]

• cadalene

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kanˈdeː.lae̯/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kanˈde.le/,

candēlae

1. inflection of candēla:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular