cantor

• cantour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin cantor, agent noun from perfect passive participle cantus, from verb canere (“to sing”) + agent suffix -or.

cantor (plural cantors)

1. singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony

   The cantor's place in church is on the right of the choir

• song leader

• Carnot, Carton, Catron, Contra, TRACON, carton, contra, contra-, corant, craton, tracon

From Latin cantor (“male singer”), cantōrem.

cantor m (plural cantores)

1. singer (person who sings)

• cantante

• cantar

From Latin cantor.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kənˈto/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kanˈtoɾ/

cantor m (plural cantors, feminine cantora)

1. singer (person who sings)

• cantar

• “cantor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cantor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cantor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cantor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tor/

From canō (“I sing”) +‎ -tor.

cantor m (genitive cantōris); third declension

1. singer (male)
2. player

Third declension.

• cantrīx

Inflected form of cantō (“I sing”).

cantor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of cantō

• cantor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cantor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cantor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Latin cantōrem (“male singer”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃ˈtoɾ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃ˈtoʁ/

cantor m (plural cantores, feminine cantora, feminine plural cantoras)

1. singer (person who sings)

• cantorzinho (diminutive)
• cantautor

From Latin cantor, cantōrem.

cantor (feminine singular cantora, masculine plural cantores, feminine plural cantoras)

1. singing

cantor m (plural cantores, feminine cantora, feminine plural cantoras)

1. singer

• cantar
• canto

• “cantor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From Latin cantor, cantōrem.

cantor m (plural cantori) or cantor m (plural canturi)

1. singer, chorister

From French comptoir.

cāntōr n (definite singular cāntōrä̆, definite plural cāntōră)

1. Alternative spelling of kanntor