anel

From Latin ānellus (“finger ring”).

anel m (plural anels)

1. ring

From Old Galician-Portuguese anel, borrowed from Old Occitan anel, from Latin ānellus (“finger ring”). Compare the inherited form elo.

anel m (plural aneis)

1. ring (small metal object)

• anular

From Latin ānellus (“finger ring”).

anel oblique singular, m (oblique plural aneaus or aneax or aniaus or aniax or anels, nominative singular aneaus or aneax or aniaus or aniax or anels, nominative plural anel)

1. ring (small metal torus-shaped object)
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 164, line 1980:

     Un anel d'or trait de sun dei

     she removed a gold ring from her finger

• Middle French: anneau
  • French: anneau
• Walloon: anea

• anell, annel

Borrowed from Old Occitan anel, from Latin ānellus, from ānulus, from ānus + -ulus.

anel m (plural anees)

1. ring (round piece of metal worn around the finger)

   Synonym: sortella

• Fala: anelu
• Galician: anel
• Portuguese: anel
  • → Língua Geral Amazônica: anera

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “anel”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “anel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “anel”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
• Antônio Geraldo da Cunha (2020–2025) “anel”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Inherited from Latin ānellus, from ānulus, from ānus + -ulus.

anel m (oblique plural anels, nominative singular anels, nominative plural anel)

1. ring (round piece of metal worn around the finger)
2. anus; ringpiece

• Occitan: anèl
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: anel, anell, annel
  • Fala: anelu
  • Galician: anel
  • Portuguese: anel
    • → Língua Geral Amazônica: anera

• “anęl”, in Dictionnaire de l’occitan médiéval en ligne (in German and French), Munich: LMU, 2013–2025

• annel (pre-standardization spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese anel, borrowed from Old Occitan anel, from Latin ānellus (“finger ring”). Doublet of elo, which was inherited. Cognates include Catalan anell, French anneau, Italian anello, Spanish anillo.

Sense 2 likely comes from the round form of the anus.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: a‧nel

anel m (plural anéis)

1. ring (round piece of metal worn around the finger)
   • 1880, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “O annel do diplomata [The diplomat’s ring]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published 1905, page 96:

     — Peço que me escutem! como sou o unico pobre que aqui está, e como todas as circumstancias são em meu desfavor, podem julgar que fui eu que roubei esse annel.

     I ask that you listen to me! as I am the only poor person standing here, and as the circumstances are against me, you can determine that I was the one who stole this ring.

3. (colloquial, vulgar) anus; ringpiece
4. (botany) annulus

   Synonym: ânulo

5. (mycology) annulus

• → Língua Geral Amazônica: anera

• anè (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)
• ani (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan)

From Latin ānellus (“finger ring”).

anel m (plural anels)

1. (Surmiran) ring