cantilena

Borrowed from Italian or Latin cantilena.

• IPA^(key): /kæntɪˈleɪnə/

cantilena (plural cantilenas)

1. (music) A vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style.
   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, The Eve of St Venus

     He played a lazy tune that sinuated from C sharp down to G natural and back again. Astonishing that he could flute so lazy a cantilena while chasing nymphs.

• lancinate

From Latin cantilēna.

• IPA^(key): /kan.tiˈlɛ.na/

cantilena f (plural cantilene)

1. lullaby

   Synonym: filastrocca

2. singsong
3. whining, cant

cantilena

1. third-person singular present indicative of cantilenare
2. second-person singular imperative of cantilenare

• lanciante

From *cantilō +‎ -ēla, the attested cantilō, cantillō being back-formed.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kan.tiˈleː.na/, [kan.tɪˈɫeː.na]

cantilēna f (genitive cantilēnae); first declension

1. old song
2. oft-repeated saying
3. gossip

First declension.

• English: cantilena
• Italian: cantilena
• Portuguese: cantilena

• cantilena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cantilena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cantilena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cantilena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Breyer, Gertrud (1993) Etruskisches Sprachgut im Lateinischen unter Ausschluß des spezifisch onomastischen Bereiches (Orientalia Analecta Lovaniensia; 53), Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oriëntalistiek, →ISBN, page 55

cantilena f (plural cantilenas)

1. (Portugal) Synonym of parlenda