canada

Borrowed from Portuguese canada.

canada (plural canadas)

1. (historical) A former liquid measure of four quartilhos, especially used for wine.

Attested since the 12th century in Medieval Latin documents. Either from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”), or from Latin canna (“canne”), and a suffix -ada. Cognate with English can, German Kanne.[1]

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnaða̝/

canada f (plural canadas)

1. (dated) A former liquid measure, usually of four cuartillos, especially used for wine and milk
   • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago, page 39:

     dúas cabaaças de vjño de senllas medias canadas et quatro capões

     two gourds of wine, each one containing half a canada, and four capons

2. a wooden or tin cylindrical jug, with spout and handle
   • 1373, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     dous picheles dstanno grandes et dous pequenos et duas canadas grandes

     two large tin tankards and two small ones and two large jugs

• canado
• caneca

• “canada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “canada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “canada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “canada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “canada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From cana +‎ -ada, from Latin canna. Compare Spanish cañada.

canada f (plural canadas)

1. a blow with a cane
2. a rural pathway or lane between fields

• (pathway): carreiro

From Latin cannata.

canada f (plural canadas)

1. a former liquid measure of four quartilhos (“pints”) (especially relating to wine)