accentor

From Latin accentor (“one who sings with another”), from ad + cantor (“singer”), from canō (“sing”). Superficially accent +‎ -or.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əkˈsɛntə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əkˈsɛn.tɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

accentor (plural accentors)

1. Any bird of the Eurasian genus Prunella, such as the dunnock.
2. (obsolete) The ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapilla.
3. (music, obsolete) One who sings the leading part; the director or leader.

• hedge sparrow

• concreta

From ad + cantor (“singer”), from canō (“sing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [akˈkɛn.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [atˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪or]

accentor m (genitive accentōris); third declension

1. one who sings with another

Third-declension noun.

• “accentor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press