# cantiga
## English
### Etymology

From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-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.

### Anagrams

* agnatic

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* cántega, cántiga

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cantǐcā or *cantīcā.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kɑnˈtiɣɐ]

### Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)
* Alternative form of cántiga

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cantiga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cantiga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cantiga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cantiga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cantiga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cantiga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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 Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /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

## Spanish
### Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)
* cantiga

### Further reading

* “cantiga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10