canalis

Latin

Etymology

For *cannālis, from canna (reed, cane), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, reed).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈnaː.lis/, [kaˈnaː.lɪs]

Noun

canālis m (genitive canālis); third declension

  1. A pipe, spout.
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.265:
      mellaque harundineis inferre canalibus
      [] and give them honey through reed pipes
  2. A gutter, ditch.
  3. A groove, channel, canal, conduit, duct.

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative canālis canālēs
Genitive canālis canālium
Dative canālī canālibus
Accusative canālem canālēs
Ablative canāle canālibus
Vocative canālis canālēs

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • canalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • canalis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • canalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • canalis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
  • canalis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canalis in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • canalis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • canalis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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