canticum

Latin canticum (“chant, song”)

canticum (plural cantici)

1. A canticle.
2. A part song in an ancient play.

cantus (“song, chant, singing, incantation”) +‎ -icus (suffix forming neuter nouns)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ti.kum/, [ˈkan.tɪ.kũ]

canticum n (genitive canticī); second declension

1. song
2. passage in a comedy chanted or sung
3. sing-song voice
4. lampoon or libelous song
5. incantation or magic formula

Second declension.

• canticulum
• cantica

• canticum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canticum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canticum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• canticum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
    
  • a choric ode: canticum
    
• canticum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canticum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin