canalis

canalis

See also: Canalis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈnaː.lis/, [käˈnäːlʲɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈna.lis/, [käˈnäːlis]

Noun

canālis m (genitive canālis); third declension

1. A pipe, spout.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.265:

     mellaque harundineis inferre canalibus

     […] and give them honey through reed pipes

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

Declension

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

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

Derived terms

• canālicius
• canālicula
• canāliculus
• canāliēnsis

Related terms

• canāliculātus
• canna
• cannamella
• cannētum
• canneus
• cannula

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: canul
  • Italian: canale (see there for further descendants)
  • Sicilian: canali
• Old French: chenel (see there for further descendants)
  • French: chenal, cheneau
  • Norman: canel
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: canal
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Romansch: chanal, chanel, canal
• Venetian: canal
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: canal
  • Old Portuguese: cãal
    • Galician: canle, cal
    • Portuguese: cale
  • Old Spanish: canal
    • Spanish: canal
      • → Tagalog: kanal
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *canālia
  • Old Portuguese: cãalla
    • Portuguese: calha

Borrowings

• → Czech: kanál
• → Danish: kanal
• → Dutch Low Saxon: knoal
• → Greek: κανάλι (kanáli)
• → Latvian: kanāls
• → Lithuanian: kanalas
• → Macedonian: канал (kanal)
• → Norwegian: kanal
• → Old French: canel (see there for further descendants)
  • French: canal
  • Norman: canal
• → Old Portuguese: canal
  • Galician: canal
  • Portuguese: canal
• → Pennsylvania German: Kanaal
• → Russian: канал (kanal)
• → Serbo-Croatian: канал / kanal
• → Swedish: kanal
  • → Finnish: kanaali
• → Ukrainian: канал (kanal)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *kanọl
  • Middle Welsh: kanawl
    • Welsh: canol

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 (accessed 16 July 2016) 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