Latin

Noun

canālis m ‎(genitive canālis); third declension

1. A pipe, spout.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgicon 4.265

     mellaque harundineis inferre canalibus

     […] and give them honey through reed pipes

2. A gutter, ditch.
3. A groove, channel, canal, conduit, duct.

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Derived terms

• canālicius
• canālicula
• canāliculus
• canāliēnsis

Related terms

Descendants

References

• canalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canalis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CANALIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “canalis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• canalis in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• canalis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canalis in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• canalis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• canalis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press