cancan
See also: can-can
English
Alternative forms
Noun
cancan (plural cancans)
- A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began.
- (motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.
Translations
dance
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Verb
cancan (third-person singular simple present cancans, present participle cancanning, simple past and past participle cancanned)
- To dance the cancan.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑnˈkɑn/, /kɑ̃ˈkɑ̃/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: can‧can
- Rhymes: -ɑn
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑŋkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋkɑ̝n]
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑnˌkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋˌkɑ̝n]
- IPA(key): /ˈkænˌkæn/, [ˈk̟æŋˌk̟æn]
Declension
| Inflection of cancan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | cancan | cancanit | ||
| genitive | cancanin | cancanien | ||
| partitive | cancania | cancaneja | ||
| illative | cancaniin | cancaneihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | cancan | cancanit | ||
| accusative | nom. | cancan | cancanit | |
| gen. | cancanin | |||
| genitive | cancanin | cancanien | ||
| partitive | cancania | cancaneja | ||
| inessive | cancanissa | cancaneissa | ||
| elative | cancanista | cancaneista | ||
| illative | cancaniin | cancaneihin | ||
| adessive | cancanilla | cancaneilla | ||
| ablative | cancanilta | cancaneilta | ||
| allative | cancanille | cancaneille | ||
| essive | cancanina | cancaneina | ||
| translative | cancaniksi | cancaneiksi | ||
| abessive | cancanitta | cancaneitta | ||
| instructive | — | cancanein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Further reading
- “cancan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
Etymology
Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as [ˈkʷam.kʷã(m)] but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/
Audio (file)
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- Allen, W. Sidney. Vox Latina. Cambridge U. Press 1978 p. 107.
Further reading
- “cancan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Declension
Declension of cancan
Swedish
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