# canudo
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* canuto

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈnuðo̝/

### Noun

canudo m (plural canudos)
* section of a cane
* 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 decauçonprepare 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
* shaft or calamus of a feather

#### Related terms

* cana

### References

* 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: ILG
* 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
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “canuto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈnu.du/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈnu.du/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈnu.do/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈnu.du/ [kɐˈnu.ðu]
* Hyphenation: ca‧nu‧do

### Noun

canudo m (plural canudos)
* tube, pipe
* (Brazil) drinking straw (small hollow tube through which drink is sucked)
    Synonym: (Portugal) palhinha
* diploma or certificate tube
** (informal, by extention) diploma

#### Derived terms

* acanudar
* canudar
* canudinho

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈnudo/ [kaˈnu.ð̞o]
* Rhymes: -udo
* Syllabification: ca‧nu‧do

### Adjective

canudo (feminine canuda, masculine plural canudos, feminine plural canudas)
* (obsolete) grey-haired

### Further reading

* “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