canudo

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese canudo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Hispanic Late Latin *cannūtus (canelike), from Latin canna (cane)[1] Compare Portuguese canudo and Spanish canuto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈnuðo̝/

Noun

canudo m (plural canudos)

  1. section of a cane
  2. tube, pipe
    Synonym: tubo
    • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 93:
      faz cristel de huun canudo longo et groso et meteo no cuu do Cauallo, et parao ao sopee et llançalle por aquel cristel aquella decauçon tibya, et tanto que lla llançares tapalle o Cuu con estopa ou con pano de gisa que non saya ende a decauçon
      prepare a enema with a long and thick tube and insert it in the ass of the horse, immobilize him and pour by the cane the lukewarm enema, and as soon as you have done that plug the ass with oakum or a cloth, so as the enema doesn't come out
  3. shaft or calamus of a feather

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “canuto”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese canudo. By surface analysis, cano +‎ -udo.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈnu.du/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈnu.do/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈnu.du/ [kɐˈnu.ðu]

  • Hyphenation: ca‧nu‧do

Noun

canudo m (plural canudos)

  1. tube, pipe
  2. (Brazil) drinking straw (small hollow tube through which drink is sucked)
    Synonym: (Portugal) palhinha
  3. diploma or certificate tube
    1. (informal, by extention) diploma

Derived terms

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cānūtus. By surface analysis, cana +‎ -udo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈnudo/ [kaˈnu.ð̞o]
  • Rhymes: -udo
  • Syllabification: ca‧nu‧do

Adjective

canudo (feminine canuda, masculine plural canudos, feminine plural canudas)

  1. (obsolete) grey-haired

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