canticum
English
Etymology
Latin canticum (“chant, song”)
Noun
canticum (plural cantica)
- A canticle.
- A part song in an ancient play.
Latin
Etymology
cantus (“song, chant, singing, incantation”) + -icus (suffix forming neuter nouns)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.ti.kum/, [ˈkän̪t̪ɪkʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.ti.kum/, [ˈkän̪t̪ikum]
Noun
canticum n (genitive canticī); second declension
- song
- passage in a comedy chanted or sung
- sing-song voice
- lampoon or libelous song
- incantation or magic formula
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | canticum | cantica |
| Genitive | canticī | canticōrum |
| Dative | canticō | canticīs |
| Accusative | canticum | cantica |
| Ablative | canticō | canticīs |
| Vocative | canticum | cantica |
Derived terms
- canticulum
- cantica
Descendants
- Aromanian: cãntic
- Megleno-Romanian: cǫntic
- Romanian: cântec
- >? Sardinian: canticu, cantigu
- → Albanian: këngë
- → Catalan: càntic
- → French: cantique
- → Italian: cantico
- → Norman: cantique
- → Piedmontese: càntich
- → Portuguese: cântico
- → Spanish: cántico
References
- “canticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “canticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- canticum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- canticum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
- a choric ode: canticum
- a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
- “canticum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “canticum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “canticum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 125
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “canticum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 234