cantiga
English
Etymology
From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Portuguese cantiga.
Noun
cantiga (plural cantigas)
- A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.
- 2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times:
- The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.
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Anagrams
- agnatic
Galician
Alternative forms
- cántega, cántiga
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cantǐcā or *cantīcā.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kɑnˈtiɣɐ]
Noun
cantiga f (plural cantigas)
- Alternative form of cántiga
References
- “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cantiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cantiga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cantiga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “cantiga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Old Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kã.ˈti.ɡa/
Noun
cantiga f (plural cantigas)
- song (musical composition with lyrics)
Descendants
- Galician: cántiga, cántega, cantiga
- Portuguese: cantiga
- → English: cantiga
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Portuguese cantiga.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ̃ˈti.ɡɐ/ [kɐ̃ˈti.ɣɐ]
- Hyphenation: can‧ti‧ga
Noun
cantiga f (plural cantigas)
- folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
- cantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
- (by extension) any song
- (figurative, colloquial) nonsense; story
- Synonyms: léria, mentira
Related terms
- canção
- cantado
- cantante
- cantar
- cântico
- cantor