cantio
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.ti.oː/, [ˈkän̪t̪ioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.t͡si.o/, [ˈkänt̪͡s̪io]
Noun
cantiō f (genitive cantiōnis); third declension
- song, singing, playing
- Synonym: carmen
- LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA INEPTOS CRITICOS. (Concluding statements of Century VI, Prophecies of Nostradamus)
- incantation, spell
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cantiō | cantiōnēs |
| Genitive | cantiōnis | cantiōnum |
| Dative | cantiōnī | cantiōnibus |
| Accusative | cantiōnem | cantiōnēs |
| Ablative | cantiōne | cantiōnibus |
| Vocative | cantiō | cantiōnēs |
Descendants
- Franco-Provençal: chançon
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: chançon, canchon, cançun
- Old Occitan: canczon
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: cantzoni
- Logudorese: cantone
- Nuorese: cancione
- Venetian: canson
- →⇒ Cimbrian: kansüunle
- West Iberian
- → English: cantion
- → Spanish: canción (semi-learned)
References
- “cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cantio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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