# canela
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin candela. Doublet of the later borrowed form candela.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kəˈnɛ.lə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kəˈnə.lə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kaˈnɛ.la]

### Noun

canela f (plural caneles)
* (archaic or Valencia) Alternative form of candela

### References

* ↑ “candela”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “canela” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “canela” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin cannella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”). Cognate with Portuguese canela, Spanish canilla, Catalan canell

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɑˈnɛlɐ/

### Noun

canela m (plural canelas)
* cane or pipe
** c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, page 254:Et aquel jnstrumẽto cõ que tangia Mercurio era nouo, et avia em el sete canelasThat instrument Mercury was playing with was new, and it has seven pipes in it
* shin
* shinbone
* leg (of a sock)
* cinnamon

#### Derived terms

* Canelas
* caneleira
* Caneliñas

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “canela”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canela”, 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), “canela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈnɛ.lɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈnɛ.lɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈnɛ.la/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈnɛ.lɐ/
* Hyphenation: ca‧ne‧la

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cannella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).

#### Noun

canela f (plural canelas)
* cinnamon (spice)
* (colloquial) shin

##### Related terms

* caneleira
* Canela

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

canela
* inflection of canelar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese canela, from Latin canella, diminutive of canna (“reed, cane”). Displaced Latin cinnamōmum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈnela/ [kaˈne.la]
* Audio (Peru):(file)
* Rhymes: -ela
* Syllabification: ca‧ne‧la

### Noun

canela f (plural canelas)
* cinnamon

#### Derived terms

* árbol de la canela
* canela blanca
* flor de la canela
* ser canela en rama

#### Related terms

* canal
* canilla
* cannoli
* caña
* cañón

### Adjective

canela f
* feminine singular of canelo

### Further reading

* “canelo”, 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