kandilo

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kǎndilo/
Hyphenation: kan‧di‧lo

Noun

kàndilo n (Cyrillic spelling ка̀ндило)

(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.

Declension

Declension of *kandilo*
	singular	plural
nominative	kandilo	kandila
genitive	kandila	kandila
dative	kandilu	kandilima
accusative	kandilo	kandila
vocative	kandilo	kandila
locative	kandilu	kandilima
instrumental	kandilom	kandilima

References

^{The template Template:R:sh:RJA does not use the parameter(s): id=MP7pcv1bJL
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
“kandilo”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025