cantor

• cantour (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæntɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈkæntə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)

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.

2. A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan

• cantorate
• cantrix
• chant

• 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

Borrowed from Latin cantōrem.

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

cantor m (plural cantors, feminine cantora)

1. singer (person who sings as a job)

   Hypernym: cantaire

   Hypernym: cantador

• 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, 2024
• “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/, [ˈkän̪t̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tor/, [ˈkän̪t̪or]

From canō (“I sing”) +‎ -tor.

cantor m (genitive cantōris, feminine cantrīx); third declension

1. singer (male)

   Synonym: cantātor

   • Vulgata Latina Reg. II.19.35:

     vel audire possum ultra vocem cantorum atque cantricum?

     Can I still hear the voices of male and female singers?

2. player (male)

Third-declension noun.

• 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”).

• Hyphenation: can‧tor

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

1. singer (person who sings)

• cantorzinho (diminutive)
• cantautor

Borrowed from Latin cantor.

cantor m (plural cantori)

1. cantor

Inherited from Latin cantōrem.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtoɾ/ [kãn̪ˈt̪oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: can‧tor

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

1. singing

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

1. singer

• “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 Middle Welsh kantor, from Latin cantor.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkantɔr/

cantor f (plural cantorion or cantoriaid, feminine cantores)

1. singer

   Synonym: canwr

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cantor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies