# canto
## English
### Etymology

From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkæntəʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈkæntoʊ/
* Rhymes: -æntəʊ

### Noun

canto (plural cantos)
* One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
* (music) The treble or leading melody.
* (music) The designated division of a song.

#### Derived terms

* canto fermo

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Acton, Caton, act on, acton, octan

## Asturian
### Verb

canto
* first-person singular present indicative of cantar

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkan.tu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkan.to]

### Verb

canto
* first-person singular present indicative of cantar

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkanto̝/

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus.

#### Noun

canto m (uncountable)
* singing
* hymn, song

#### Verb

canto
* first-person singular present indicative of cantar

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese canto (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia and having a probable Celtic origin.

#### Noun

canto m (plural cantos)
* middle or small sized stone
    Synonym: callao
** 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 605:[Et] poserõ perlos muros beesteyros et arque[yro]s muytos et outros, pera deytar quantos et paos agudos metudos en ferros, en guisa que os que se quisesem chegar ao muro nõ podesem escapar de morte And they arranged many crossbowmen and bowmen on the walls, an others to throw stones and sharp sticks inserted in irons, so as the ones who wanted to come near the wall could not escape death

##### Derived terms

* canteira (“quarry”)
* canteiro (“stonemason”)

### Etymology 3

Documented already in Latin as canthus (“metal tire”), voice that was interpreted as Hispanic or African by Quintilian; in that case, from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic *kantos (compare Welsh cant (“rim”)). Otherwise Latin canthus could perhaps come from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).

#### Noun

canto m (plural cantos)
* rim of a round object
    Synonym: bordo
* extreme of a place or of a field
* very small field
* corner
    Synonym: recanto

#### Pronoun

canto m (feminine singular canta, masculine plural cantos, feminine plural cantas)
* (interrogative) how much
    E sabedes canto tempo tardaron na elecsón?And do you know how long they took in the election?

##### Derived terms

* cantil (“cliff”)
* Canto
* cantón (“extreme”)
* recanto (“corner”)

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “canto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “canto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canto”, 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), “canto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canto”, 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) “canto II”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “canto I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* ↑ cf. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635

## Interlingua
### Noun

canto (plural cantos)
* song

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From Latin cantus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkan.to/
* Rhymes: -anto
* Hyphenation: càn‧to

#### Noun

canto m (plural canti)
* song
* singing
* poetic composition
* Part of a poem (e.g. the Divine Comedy); canto

##### Related terms

* cantare
* cantica
* canto del cigno
* canto piano
* cantore
* cantoria
* canzone
* d'altro canto

##### Descendants

* English: bel canto

### Etymology 2

From Latin canthus, from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós), meaning corner, specifically the corner of the eye. Or from a Vulgar Latin *cantus, a word of Mediterranean origin akin to the aforementioned Greek term

#### Noun

canto m (plural canti)
* corner
* side

##### Related terms

* cantonale
* cantone
* cantoniera
* cantuccio
* d'altro canto

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

canto
* first-person singular present indicative of cantare

### References

* ↑ canto$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Caton, conta

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkan.toː/, [ˈkän̪t̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkan.to/, [ˈkän̪t̪o]

### Etymology 1

From canō (“sing”) +‎ -tō (frequentative suffix). See cantus.

#### Verb

cantō (present infinitive cantāre, perfect active cantāvī, supine cantātum); first conjugation
* to sing (all senses)
* to enchant, or call forth by charms, chant

##### Usage notes

The sense of cantō essentially coincides with that of canō with the additional possible sense of the practice of charms or enchantments.

##### Derived terms

* cantāmen
* cantillō
* cantitō
* discantō
* incantō
* prōcantātor

##### Related terms

* canticum
* cantiō
* cantor
* cantrīx
* cantus

##### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: cãntu
** Istro-Romanian: cântå
** Megleno-Romanian: cǫnt
** Romanian: cânta
** → Albanian: këndoj
* Dalmatian:
** cantur, cantuor, kantur
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: cantà
*** Gallurese: cantà
** Italian: cantare
** Neapolitan: cantare
** Sicilian: cantari
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: cantare, cantai (Campidanese)
* North Italian:
** Friulian: cjantâ, čhantâ (alternative spelling)
** Ladin: cianter, ciantà, cianté
** Piedmontese: canté
** Romansch: chantar, cantar (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran), chanter (Puter)
** Venetan: cantar
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: cantar
** Franco-Provençal: chantar
** Old French: chanter, canter (see there for further descendants)
** Old Occitan: cantar, chantar (northern)
*** Occitan: cantar, chantar
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: cantar
** Asturian: cantar
** Mirandese: cantar
** Old Galician-Portuguese: cantar
*** Fala: cantal
*** Galician: cantar
*** Portuguese: cantar (see there for further descendants)
** Spanish: cantar
* Borrowings:
** → Esperanto: kanti
*** Ido: kantar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Participle

cantō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cantus

### References

* “canto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “canto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "canto", 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)
* canto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* canto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian canto, from Latin cantus. Doublet of szanta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkan.tɔ/
* Rhymes: -antɔ
* Syllabification: can‧to

### Noun

canto n (indeclinable)
* (music) canto (the designated division of a song)
* (music) canto (the treble or leading melody)

### Further reading

* canto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.tu/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃tu
* Hyphenation: can‧to

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant.

#### Noun

canto m (plural cantos)
* singing (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds)
    Synonym: cantoria
* chant
* a bird’s song
    Synonym: canção
* (figurative) any pleasant sound
* (poetry) canto

##### Derived terms

* canto coral
* canto de cisne
* canto de estante
* canto de sereia
* canto eclesiástico
* canto firme
* canto gregoriano

##### Related terms

* cantada
* cantar
* cântico
* cantiga
* cantor
* cantoria
* encanto

### Etymology 2

From Latin canthus or Vulgar Latin *cantus, from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”).

#### Noun

canto m (plural cantos)
* corner (space in the angle between converging lines or surfaces)
    Synonyms: ângulo, esquina, quina
    Os quatro cantos do mundo ― The four corners of the world
* a remote location
    Synonyms: recanto, retiro
* an undetermined or unknown location
* (sports) the corner of the goal line and touchline
** (soccer) corner (a corner kick)
    Synonym: pontapé de canto
* (architecture) type of stone used in the corners of a building

##### Derived terms

* por todo canto

##### Related terms

* canteiro

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

canto
* first-person singular present indicative of cantar

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian canto.

### Noun

canto n (uncountable)
* canto

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkanto/ [ˈkãn̪.t̪o]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -anto
* Syllabification: can‧to

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cantus.

#### Noun

canto m (plural cantos)
* singing
* song
* chant

##### Hyponyms

* canto a lo poeta
* canto de cuna
* canto fúnebre
* canto gregoriano

##### Derived terms

* canto de sirena
* canto del cisne
* canto tirolés

##### Related terms

* canción
* cantar
* cántico

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin canthus (“metal rim of a wheel”), from Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós), or from a Vulgar Latin cantus, of ultimately the same origin, or less likely Celtic origin, from Gaulish *cantos, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂ndʰ-.

#### Noun

canto m (plural cantos)
* edge
* (Philippines) corner, especially the intersection of two streets
* side
* (rare) thickness
* a piece of stone
* (anatomy) canthus

##### Derived terms

* cantear
* cantil
* cantón
* darse con un canto en los dientes
* de cal y canto
* de canto
* faltar el canto de un duro
* a cal y canto
* cantear
* cantera
* canto pelado
* canto rodado

##### Descendants

* → Cebuano: kanto
* → Tagalog: kanto

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

canto
* first-person singular present indicative of cantar

### Further reading

* “canto”, 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