canoa

canoa

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnoa/, [kaˈno.a]
• Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)

1. canoe (small long and narrow boat)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish canoa.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kəˈno.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.a/

Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)

1. canoe

Hypernyms

• piragua

Related terms

• canotatge

Further reading

• “canoa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “canoa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “canoa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “canoa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe

Further reading

• “canoa” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish canoa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnɔ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɔa
• Hyphenation: ca‧nò‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoe)

1. (nautical) canoe
2. (sports) canoeing

Derived terms

• canoismo
• canoista

Further reading

• canoa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• coana

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Latin

Etymology

Spanish canoa

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈnoː.a/, [käˈnoːä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.a/, [käˈnɔːä]

Noun

canōa f (genitive canōae); first declension

1. (New Latin) canoe
   • 1635, loannes Eusebius Nierembergius, Historia Naturae page 262:

     Duo Indi conueniebant in canoam, [...]

   • 1672, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae..., page 508:

     Canoa, est nauis ex vnica abore excauata...

     A canoe, is a boat hollowed out from a single tree...

   • 1780, Joannes Genesius Sepulveda, Joannis Genesii Sepulvedae cordubensis opera cum edita turn inedita ... page XXII:

     [...] ingenti vi canoarum a Mexicanis ceterisque palustribus oppidis contra classem venientibus.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canōa	canōae
Genitive	canōae	canōārum
Dative	canōae	canōīs
Accusative	canōam	canōās
Ablative	canōā	canōīs
Vocative	canōa	canōae

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Taíno kanoa (“dugout canoe”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈno.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈno.ɐ/, (regional) /kɐˈno.wɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe (small long and narrow boat)

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Kanoh

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Spanish

Etymology

From Taíno *kanowa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnoa/ [kaˈno.a]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: ca‧no‧a

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe

Derived terms

• canoero
• canotaje

Descendants

Descendants

• → Asturian: canoa
• → Catalan: canoa
• → Dutch: kano
• → English: canoe
  • → German: Kanu
  • → Irish: canú
• → Middle French: canoe
  • French: canoë
• → Galician: canoa
• → Huichol: canuva
• → Italian: canoa
• → Maquiritari: kanowa
• → Portuguese: canoa
  • → Hunsrik: Kanoh
• → Russian: кано́э (kanóe)
• → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: canuva

Further reading

• “canoa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014