кандило

Ultimately from Latin candela (“candle”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkandiɫɔ]
• Hyphenation: кан‧ди‧ло

кандило • (kandilo) n (plural кандила, diminutive кандилце)

1. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) a vigil lamp; a cresset, usually hanging and richly decorated, containing a floating wick fed by oil, which is placed before icons and altars
2. (archaic) oil lamp

• “кандило” in Дигитален речник на македонскиот јазик (Digitalen rečnik na makedonskiot jazik) [Digital dictionary of the Macedonian language] − drmj.eu

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic канъдило (kanŭdilo), from Ancient Greek κανδήλη (kandḗlē), from Latin candela (“candle”).

• IPA^(key): [kɐnʲˈdʲiɫə]

канди́ло • (kandílo) n inan (genitive канди́ла, nominative plural канди́ла, genitive plural канди́л)

1. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) a vigil lamp; a cresset, usually hanging and richly decorated, containing a floating wick fed by oil, which is placed before icons and altars

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic канъдило (kanŭdilo), from Ancient Greek κανδήλη (kandḗlē), from Latin candela (“candle”).

• IPA^(key): /kǎndilo/
• Hyphenation: кан‧ди‧ло

ка̀ндило n (Latin spelling kàndilo)

1. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) A vigil lamp; a cresset, usually hanging and richly decorated, containing a floating wick fed by oil, which is placed before icons and altars.
   • 1844, Ljudevit Gaj, Danica horvatska, slavonska i dalmatinska, volume 10, number 42:

     U jednom kutu visila je jednostavna bezuresna ikona, pred kojom je gorelo malo kandilo.

     In one corner hung a plain undecorated icon, before which burned a small vigil lamp.

   • 1898, Laza K. Lazarević, Pripovetke, I-II, published 1899:

     Собу је освјетљавало кандило, које је горјело пред иконом.

     The room was illuminated by a vigil lamp, which burned in front of an icon.

• ка̀дило (“censer, thurible”)

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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kàndilo”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb: JAZU, page 818
• “кандило”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025