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. ==== Declension ==== === 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), 2006–2026