canela

Borrowed from Portuguese chinela (“slipper”), from Italian cianella (dialectal), from Italian pianella, ultimately from Latin plānus.

canela

1. women's slipper part of traditional Ambonese clothing
2. traditional Ambonese women's clothing as a whole

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998), Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎^[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Inherited from Latin candela. Doublet of the later borrowed form candela.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈnɛ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈnə.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈnɛ.la]

canela f (plural caneles)

1. (archaic or Valencia) alternative form of candela

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /kɑˈnɛlɐ/

canela m (plural canelas)

1. 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 canelas

     That instrument Mercury was playing with was new, and it has seven pipes in it

2. shin
3. shinbone
4. leg (of a sock)
5. cinnamon

• Canelas
• caneleira
• Caneliñas

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “canela”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (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

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• Rhymes: -ɛlɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ne‧la
• Homophone: Canela

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

canela f (plural canelas)

1. (uncountable) cinnamon (spice from the cinnamon tree)
2. (colloquial) shin (front part of the leg below the knee)

canela m (plural canelas)

1. Canela (member of the Canela people)
2. (uncountable) Canela language

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

canela

1. inflection of canelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “canela”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “canela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnela/ [kaˈne.la]

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: ca‧ne‧la

canela f (plural canelas)

1. cinnamon

canela f

1. feminine singular of canelo

• “canelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025