canto
Portuguese
/ˈkɐ̃.tu/, /ˈkɐ̃.to/
noun
Definitions
- singing the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds
- chant
- a bird’s song
- (figurative) any pleasant sound
- (poetry) canto
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese canto inherited from Latin cantus (song, chant, singing, metal rim of a wheel, corner, incantation) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (sing).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kan-
Gloss
sing
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- chant English
- chanter English
- chantest English
- chanteth English
- chanting English
- chantlike English
- chantress English
- plainchant English
- cantellus Latin
- canticum Latin
- cantiō Latin
- cantiōnem, cantiō, cantio Latin
- cantus Latin
- carmen Latin
- canto Italian
- chanten Dutch, Flemish
- cantil Spanish, Castilian
- canto Spanish, Castilian
- κανθός Ancient Greek
- *kan- Proto-Indo-European
- *keh₂n- Proto-Indo-European
- kant Norwegian Bokmål
- canteiro Portuguese
- recanto Portuguese
- *hanjō Proto-Germanic
- *hanô Proto-Germanic
- *hōnijǭ Proto-Germanic
- kant Norwegian Nynorsk
- chaunten Middle English
- *cant Old French
- chant Old French
- canto Galician
- cânt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- canto Old Portuguese
- *kanati Proto-Indo-Iranian
- cjant Friulian
- cant Old Occitan
- cantu Sardinian
- *cantos Gaulish