canto

See also: Canto, cantó, and cantò

English

Etymology

From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant.

Pronunciation

Noun

canto (plural cantos)

  1. One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
  2. (music) The treble or leading melody.

Translations

Anagrams

Asturian

Verb

canto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cantar

Catalan

Verb

canto

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of cantar

Galician

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkanto̝/

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus.

Noun

canto m (uncountable)

  1. singing
  2. hymn, song

Verb

canto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cantar

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese canto (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia and having a probable Celtic origin.[1]

Noun

canto m (plural cantos)

  1. middle or small sized stone
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 605:
      [Et] poserõ perlos muros beesteyros et arque[yro]s muytos et outros, pera deytar quantos et paos agudos metudos en ferros, en guisa que os que se quisesem chegar ao muro nõ podesem escapar de morte
      And they arranged many crossbowmen and bowmen on the walls, to throw stones and sharp sticks inserted in irons, so as the ones who wanted to came near the wall could not escape the death
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Etymology 3

Documented already in Latin as canthus (“metal tire”), voice that was interpreted as Hispanic or African by Quintilian; in that case, from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic *kanto- (confer Welsh cant (“rim”)).[2] Otherwise Latin canthus could perhaps come from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).[3]

Noun

canto m (plural cantos)

  1. rim of a round object
  2. extreme of a place
  3. corner
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References
  • “canto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “canto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “canto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “canto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “canto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. canto II.
  2. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. canto I.
  3. cf. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 635

Interlingua

Noun

canto (plural cantos)

  1. song

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin cantus.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈkän̪ːt̪o/

Noun

canto m (plural canti)

  1. song
  2. singing
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Latin canthus, from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós), meaning corner, specifically the corner of the eye. Or from a Vulgar Latin *cantus, a word of Mediterranean origin akin to the aforementioned Greek term[1]

Noun

canto m (plural canti)

  1. corner
  2. side

Etymology 3

From cantare.

Verb

canto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cantare

Anagrams

References
  1. http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/canto2/

Latin

Etymology 1

From canō (“I sing”) +‎ -tō (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

Verb

cantō (present infinitive cantāre, perfect active cantāvī, supine cantātum); first conjugation

  1. I sing (all senses).
  2. I enchant, or call forth by charms
Usage notes

The sense of cantō essentially coincides with that of canō with the additional possible sense of the practice of charms or enchantments.

Inflection
   Conjugation of canto (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cantō cantās cantat cantāmus cantātis cantant
imperfect cantābam cantābās cantābat cantābāmus cantābātis cantābant
future cantābō cantābis cantābit cantābimus cantābitis cantābunt
perfect cantāvī cantāvistī cantāvit cantāvimus cantāvistis cantāvērunt, cantāvēre
pluperfect cantāveram cantāverās cantāverat cantāverāmus cantāverātis cantāverant
future perfect cantāverō cantāveris cantāverit cantāverimus cantāveritis cantāverint
passive present cantor cantāris, cantāre cantātur cantāmur cantāminī cantantur
imperfect cantābar cantābāris, cantābāre cantābātur cantābāmur cantābāminī cantābantur
future cantābor cantāberis, cantābere cantābitur cantābimur cantābiminī cantābuntur
perfect cantātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect cantātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect cantātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cantem cantēs cantet cantēmus cantētis cantent
imperfect cantārem cantārēs cantāret cantārēmus cantārētis cantārent
perfect cantāverim cantāverīs cantāverit cantāverimus cantāveritis cantāverint
pluperfect cantāvissem cantāvissēs cantāvisset cantāvissēmus cantāvissētis cantāvissent
passive present canter cantēris, cantēre cantētur cantēmur cantēminī cantentur
imperfect cantārer cantārēris, cantārēre cantārētur cantārēmur cantārēminī cantārentur
perfect cantātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect cantātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — cantā — — cantāte —
future — cantātō cantātō — cantātōte cantantō
passive present — cantāre — — cantāminī —
future — cantātor cantātor — — cantantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives cantāre cantāvisse cantātūrus esse cantārī cantātus esse cantātum īrī
participles cantāns — cantātūrus — cantātus cantandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
nominative genitive dative/ablative accusative accusative ablative
cantāre cantandī cantandō cantandum cantātum cantātū
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

cantō

  1. dative masculine singular of cantus
  2. dative neuter singular of cantus
  3. ablative masculine singular of cantus
  4. ablative neuter singular of cantus

References
  • canto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • canto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • canto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • canto in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɐ̃.tu/
  • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɐ̃.to/
  • Hyphenation: can‧to

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“I sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant

Noun

canto m (plural cantos)

  1. singing (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds)
    Synonym: cantoria
  2. chant
  3. a bird’s song
    Synonym: canção
  4. (figuratively) any pleasant sound
  5. (poetry) canto
Derived terms

Verb

canto

  1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of cantar

Etymology 2

From Latin canthus or Vulgar Latin *cantus, from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).

Noun

canto m (plural cantos)

  1. corner (space in the angle between converging lines or surfaces)
    Synonyms: ângulo, esquina, quina
  2. a remote location
    Synonyms: recanto, retiro
  3. an undetermined or unknown location
  4. (sports) the corner of the goal line and touchline
  5. (architecture) type of stone used in the corners of a building
Derived terms
  • por todo canto

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkanto/, [ˈkãn̪t̪o]

Etymology 1

From Latin cantus.

Noun

canto m (plural cantos)

  1. singing
  2. song
  3. chant

Etymology 2

From Latin canthus (“metal rim of a wheel”), from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós), or from a Vulgar Latin cantus, of ultimately the same origin, or less likely Celtic origin, from Gaulish *cantos, from Proto-Celtic *cantos (“corner”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ndʰ.

Noun

canto m (plural cantos)

  1. edge
  2. side
  3. (rare) thickness
  4. a piece of stone
Derived terms

(edge; side):

(stone):

  • cantera f
  • canto pelado m
  • canto rodado m

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

canto

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of cantar.

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