kandilo

Serbo-Croatian

kandilo

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)

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.

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

• 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