The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκάννα“reed”
- Latin · derived fromcanāliculus“small channel, pipe or gutter”
- English todaycanaliculus
From Latin canāliculus (“small channel, pipe or gutter”), diminutive of canālis (“channel; pipe, gutter”), from canna (“cane, reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”).
Words from the same roots
Latincanāliculus all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.