canel
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French canele, from Medieval Latin canella; equivalent to cane + -el.
Pronunciation
Noun
canel (uncountable)
- cinnamon (The bark of trees of certain species of the genus Cinnamomum)
- (rare) The cinnamon tree; the trees which produce cinnamon.
Usage notes
This term referred to a lower quality of cinnamon, as opposed to synamome.
Descendants
- Scots: cannel
References
- “canē̆l (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-01.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin canalis. Doublet of chanel.
Noun
canel oblique singular, m (oblique plural caneaus or caneax or caniaus or caniax or canels, nominative singular caneaus or caneax or caniaus or caniax or canels, nominative plural canel)
- canal (artificial watercourse)
Descendants
- French: canal
- Norman: canal
- → Irish: canáil
- → Middle Dutch: canel, canael
- → Middle English: canal, canale, cannale
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (canal, supplement)
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