kandilo

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic канъдило (kanŭdilo), from Ancient Greek κανδήλη (kandḗlē), from Latin candela (“candle”).

• IPA^(key): /kǎndilo/
• Hyphenation: kan‧di‧lo

kàndilo n (Cyrillic spelling ка̀ндило)

1. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A vigil lamp; a cresset, usually hanging and richly decorated, containing a floating wick fed by oil, which is placed before icons and altars.
   • 1844, Ljudevit Gaj, Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska, volume 10, number 42:

     U jednom kutu visila je jednostavna bezuresna ikona, pred kojom je gorelo malo kandilo.

     In one corner hung a plain undecorated icon, before which burned a small vigil lamp.

• Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kàndilo”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 818
• “kandilo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026