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canal

See also: Canal, and canàl

English

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A canal.
 
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French canal, from Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”), from canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of channel.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • IPA(key): /kəˈnæl/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /kəˈnæl/, /kəˈnɛl/
  • Rhymes: -æl

Noun

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canal (plural canals)

  1. An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  2. (anatomy) A tubular channel within the body.
  3. (astronomy) One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals

Usage notes

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  • Occasionally applied to similar natural waterways, such as Hood Canal.

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Descendants

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  • → Scottish Gaelic: canàl

Translations

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a tubular channel within the body
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Verb

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canal (third-person singular simple present canals, present participle canaling or canalling, simple past and past participle canaled or canalled)

  1. To dig an artificial waterway in or to (a place), especially for drainage
    • 1968, Louisiana State University, Proceedings‎[1], page 165:
      In the mangrove-type salt marsh, the entire marsh must be canaled or impounded.
  2. To travel along a canal by boat
    • 1905, William Yoast Morgan, A Journey of a Jayhawker, page 211:
      Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin canālis.

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canal f (plural canales)

  1. canal (artificial waterway)

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

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canal m (plural canals)

  1. canal (artificial passage for water)
  2. channel
  3. (anatomy) channel, tract
    canal digestiu ― digestive tract

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canal f (plural canals)

  1. roof gutter
    Synonyms: canaló, ràfec
  2. (architecture) groove, fluting (of a column, etc.)
    Synonyms: estria, solc
  3. crease, fold
  4. (bookbinding) fore edge
  5. carcass

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin canālis. Doublet of chenal.

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canal m (plural canaux)

  1. canal
  2. channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese canal (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria): cana (“cane, reed”) +‎ -al. Cognate with Spanish cañal.

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canal m (plural canais)

  1. (dated) fish-weir; place or installation for fishing, on a river
    Synonyms: caneiro, pesqueira
    • 1375, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 385:
      V casares en Cesar os quaes fforon de Mayor Aras moller de Martin Sanchez Xarpa com huum paaço et con huum canal enno Tamare.
      5 farmhouses in Cesar, which belonged to Maior Aras, wife of Martín Sánchez Xarpa, with a manor and a fishery on the river Tambre

Etymology 2

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Learned borrowing from Latin canalis. Doublet of canle and cal.

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canal m (plural canais)

  1. canal
  2. channel

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

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canal m (plural canaux)

  1. (Jersey) canal

Portuguese

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canal

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese canal, from Latin canālis (“canal”), from canna (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). This form may possibly be an early borrowing or semi-learned term; compare the fully inherited doublet cale, and related calha.

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ca‧nal

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canal m (plural canais)

  1. ditch
    Synonyms: canaleta, vala, valeta
  2. canal (artificial waterway)
  3. (radio) channel (broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
  4. (television) television channel

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French canal, Latin canālis.

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canal n (plural canale or canaluri)

  1. (plural canaluri) canal
  2. channel

Declension

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Declension of canal
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) canal canalul (niște) canale canalele
genitive/dative (unui) canal canalului (unor) canale canalelor
vocative canalule canalelor
Declension of canal
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) canal canalul (niște) canaluri canalurile
genitive/dative (unui) canal canalului (unor) canaluri canalurilor
vocative canalule canalurilor

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish canal, from Latin canālis (“channel; canal”).

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canal m (plural canales)

  1. canal, flume, waterway (artificial)
  2. channel (wide strait)
  3. (communication) channel
  4. (chemistry) channel
  5. cleavage

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Venetan

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Etymology

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From Latin canālis.

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canal m (plural canałi)

  1. canal
  2. channel (all senses)
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