# chanter
## English
### Alternative forms

* chantor

### Etymology

From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant +‎ -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtʃɑːntə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃæntɚ/
* Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ), -ɑːntə(ɹ)

### Noun

chanter (plural chanters)
* One who chants or sings.
* A priest who sings in a chantry.
* The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
** 1860s, anon, Lanigan's Ball (song)
    the piper was near being strangled / They squeezed up his pipes, bellows, chanters and all.
* The hedge sparrow.
* (archaic) One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

#### Derived terms

* chantered
* chantress
* subchanter

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* rechant, Carthen, tranche

## Champenois
### Alternative forms

* (Rémois) tainteu

### Etymology

Inherited from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre..

### Pronunciation

IPA: /ʃɑ̃.te/

### Verb

chanter
* (Troyen, Langrois) to sing

### References

* Daunay, Jean (1998) Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
* Baudoin, Alphonse (1885) Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French chanter, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɑ̃.te/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

chanter
* (singing) to sing
    chanter comme une casserole ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    chanter comme une seringue ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    chanter comme un rossignol ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* to crow

#### Derived terms

* chanteur
* chantage
* chantable
* faire chanter

#### Related terms

* chanson
* chant
* chantonner
* chantre

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: chanteren

### Further reading

* “chanter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* chantre, tranche, tranché

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French chanter.

### Verb

chanter
* to sing

#### Conjugation

* Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

#### Descendants

* French: chanter

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from French chanter, from Old French chanter, from Latin cantō, cantare (“sing”, verb).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Jersey):(file)

### Verb

chanter (gerund chant'tie)
* (Jersey) to sing
** 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 524:I' chànte coume ùn orateur.He sings like an orator.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* canter (Normandy, Picardy, Anglo-Norman)

### Etymology

From Latin cantāre. First known attestation ca. 980 as canter.

### Pronunciation

* (classical) IPA: /t͡ʃanˈteːɾ/, (northern) /kan-/

### Verb

chanter
* to pray (to God)
* to sing
* to retell, to recount

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Synonyms

* (to retell): conter

#### Descendants

* Bourguignon: chantai
* Champenois: chanter
* Franc-Comtois: tchaintaie
* French: chanter
* Norman: canter
* Picard: canter
* Poitevin-Saintongeais: chantàe
* Walloon: tchanter
* → Middle English: chaunten, chaunte, chawnton
** English: chant
** Scots: chant

## Romansch
### Verb

chanter
* (Puter) Alternative form of chantar (“to sing”)