canoa

Asturian

Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)

1. canoe (small long and narrow boat)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Spanish canoa.

Noun

canoa f (plural canoes)

1. canoe

Further reading

• “canoa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “canoa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “canoa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “canoa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe

Further reading

• “canoa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Italian

Etymology

From Spanish canoa.

Noun

canoa f (plural canoe)

1. (nautical) canoe
2. (sports) canoeing

Related terms

• canoismo
• canoista

Anagrams

• coana

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Latin

Noun

canoa f (genitive canoae); first declension

1. canoe
   • 1635, loannes Eusebius Nierembergius, Historia Naturae page 262:

     Duo Indi conueniebant in canoam, [...]

   • 1672, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Geographiae et hydrographiae reformatae..., page 508:

     Canoa, est nauis ex vnica abore excauata...

     A canoe, is a boat hollowed out from a single tree...

   • 1780, Joannes Genesius Sepulveda, Joannis Genesii Sepulvedae cordubensis opera cum edita turn inedita ... page XXII:

     [...] ingenti vi canoarum a Mexicanis ceterisque palustribus oppidis contra classem venientibus.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canoa	canoae
Genitive	canoae	canoārum
Dative	canoae	canoīs
Accusative	canoam	canoās
Ablative	canoā	canoīs
Vocative	canoa	canoae

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Taíno kanoa (“dugout canoe”).

Noun

canoa f (plural s)

1. canoe (small long and narrow boat)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Taíno *kanowa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈnoa/ [kaˈno.a]

Noun

canoa f (plural canoas)

1. canoe

Derived terms

• canoero
• canotaje

Descendants

• → Asturian: canoa
• → Catalan: canoa
• → Dutch: kano
• → English: canoe
  • → German: Kanu
  • → Irish: canú
• → Middle French: canoe
  • French: canoë
• → Galician: canoa
• → Italian: canoa
• → Ye'kwana: kanowa
• → Portuguese: canoa
• → Russian: каноэ (kanoe)
• → San Juan Colorado Mixtec: canuva

Further reading

• “canoa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014