cantus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cantus (literally “song, chant”).

Noun

cantus

1. (music) Synonym of superius.

Related terms

• cantus firmus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of canō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tus/, [ˈkän̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tus/, [ˈkän̪t̪us]

Participle

cantus (feminine canta, neuter cantum); first/second-declension participle

1. sung, recited
2. sounded, blew
3. chanted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cantus	canta	cantum		cantī	cantae	canta
Genitive	cantī	cantae	cantī		cantōrum	cantārum	cantōrum
Dative	cantō		cantō		cantīs
Accusative	cantum	cantam	cantum		cantōs	cantās	canta
Ablative	cantō	cantā	cantō		cantīs
Vocative	cante	canta	cantum		cantī	cantae	canta

Noun

cantus m (genitive cantūs); fourth declension

1. song, singing
2. chant, incantation
3. crowing, crow (sound certain birds make)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cantus	cantūs
Genitive	cantūs	cantuum
Dative	cantuī	cantibus
Accusative	cantum	cantūs
Ablative	cantū	cantibus
Vocative	cantus	cantūs

Derived terms

• canticum

Descendants

• Asturian: cantu
• Catalan: cant
• Corsican: cantu
  • Gallurese: cantu
• English: cantus, chant (borrowed)
• French: chant
• Friulian: cjant, čhant
• Galician: canto
• Italian: canto
• Piedmontese: cant
• Portuguese: canto
• Romanian: cânt
• Sardinian: cantu
• Sicilian: cantu
• Spanish: canto
• Walloon: tchant

Etymology 2

Noun

cantus m (genitive cantī); second declension

1. Alternative spelling of canthus (“wheel, carriage tire”)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cantus	cantī
Genitive	cantī	cantōrum
Dative	cantō	cantīs
Accusative	cantum	cantōs
Ablative	cantō	cantīs
Vocative	cante	cantī

References

• “cantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cantus 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)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • instrumental music: nervorum et tibiarum cantus
    
  • vocal and instrumental music: vocum et fidium (nervorum) cantus
    

Sardinian

Noun

cantus m pl

1. plural of cantu