canticum

Latin

noun
Definitions
  • song
  • passage in a comedy chanted or sung
  • sing-song voice
  • lampoon or libelous song
  • incantation or magic formula

Etymology

Affix from Latin cantus (song, chant, singing, metal rim of a wheel, corner, incantation) root from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (sing).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*keh₂n-

Gloss

sing

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Action/Process

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