Borrowed fromOld Church Slavonicканъдило(kanŭdilo), fromAncient Greekκανδήλη(kandḗlē), fromLatincandela(“candle”).

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

kàndilo n (Cyrillic spellingка̀ндило)

1. (chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Avigil lamp; acresset, 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, volume10, number42:

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

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

• Pero Budmani, editor (1892–1897), “kàndilo”, inRječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 4, Zagreb:JAZU, page818
• “kandilo”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

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