canudo

• canuto

From Old Galician-Portuguese canudo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Hispanic Late Latin *cannūtus (“canelike”), from Latin canna (“cane”)^[1] Compare Portuguese canudo and Spanish canuto.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnuðo̝/

canudo m (plural canudos)

1. section of a cane
2. tube, pipe

   Synonym: tubo

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 93:

     faz cristel de huun canudo longo et groso et meteo no cuu do Cauallo, et parao ao sopee et llançalle por aquel cristel aquella decauçon tibya, et tanto que lla llançares tapalle o Cuu con estopa ou con pano de gisa que non saya ende a decauçon

     prepare a enema with a long and thick tube and insert it in the ass of the horse, immobilize him and pour by the cane the lukewarm enema, and as soon as you have done that plug the ass with oakum or a cloth, so as the enema doesn't come out

3. shaft or calamus of a feather

• cana

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “canudo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “canuto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “canudo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canuto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “canudo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canuto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese canudo. By surface analysis, cano +‎ -udo.

• Hyphenation: ca‧nu‧do

canudo m (plural canudos)

1. tube, pipe
2. (Brazil) drinking straw (small hollow tube through which drink is sucked)

   Synonym: (Portugal) palhinha

3. diploma or certificate tube
   1. (informal, by extention) diploma

• “canudo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Inherited from Latin cānūtus. By surface analysis, cana +‎ -udo.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnudo/
• Rhymes: -udo
• Syllabification: ca‧nu‧do

canudo (feminine canuda, masculine plural canudos, feminine plural canudas)

1. (obsolete) grey-haired

• “canudo”, 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