cantar

cantar (plural cantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar.

• arctan

From Latin cantāre.

cantar

1. to sing

From Latin cantāre.

cantar (first-person singular indicative present canto, past participle cantáu)

1. to sing

Inherited from Latin cantāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kənˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kanˈtaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite cantí, past participle cantat)

1. (ambitransitive) to sing

• “cantar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre.

• IPA^(key): [kɑnˈtaɾ]

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite cantei, past participle cantado)

1. to sing
2. to chant
3. (of a cart or wagon) to screech, to squeak (the axle against its bearings)

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. song
   • 1978, Fuxan os Ventos, Sementeira (song):

     Sementar sementarei
     loguiño de crarear
     en tanto no pobo medre
     un meniño, un vello e un cantar

     Sowing I'll sow
     soon after it clears
     as long as among the people grow
     a child, an old man and a song

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cantar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cantar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cantar”, 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), “cantar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cantar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtar/

cantar

1. to sing

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan̪ˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/^[1]

cantar

1. autonomous present indicative/present subjunctive/imperative of can

• chantar

From Old Occitan cantar, chantar, from Latin cantāre.

• IPA^(key): [kanˈta]

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cantar

1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Provençal) to sing

• cantador

Inherited from Latin cantāre, frequentative from canere.

• IPA^(key): /kã.ˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

cantar

1. to sing (to produce music with one’s voice)
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 6 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como ſanta maria reſſucitou ao menỹo que o Judeu matara por que cantaua Gaude uirgo maria.

     This one is how Holy Mary resurrected the boy who the Jew had killed because he sang Gaude Virgo Maria.

• Fala: cantal
• Galician: cantar
• Portuguese: cantar (see there for further descendants)

• chantar (northern)

From Latin cantāre.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtaɾ/, (northern) /t͡ʃan-/

cantar

1. to sing

• Occitan: cantar, chantar

From Latin cantāre

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtaɾ/

cantar

1. to sing

• Spanish: cantar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre.

• Audio (Northern Portugal):

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• Hyphenation: can‧tar

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite cantei, past participle cantado)

1. (intransitive) to sing (express sounds musically through the voice)

   Enquanto passeava pelo jardim, ouvi um pássaro cantar. ― While I was walking through the garden, I heard a bird sing.

2. (transitive) to sing, to say musically

   Ela cantou a sua melhor música. ― She sang her best song.

3. (transitive) to say with rhythm, chant

   Enquanto tomava minhas medidas, ele cantava baixinho para si mesmo os números. ― While taking my measures, he was chanting the numbers to himself in a soft voice.

4. (transitive, Brazil, colloquial) to attempt to seduce by flattery

   Synonym: seduzir

   As únicas coisas que ele faz o dia todo são comer, dormir, e cantar meninas. ― The only things he does all day are eat, sleep and seduce girls.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kanta
• Kabuverdianu: kanta
• Papiamentu: kanta

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. singing; song (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing)

   Synonym: canto

   É belíssimo, o cantar deste pássaro! ― The singing of this bird is very beautiful!

   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     No confuso rumor que se formava, destacavam-se risos, sons de vozes que altercavam, sem se saber de onde, grasnar de marrecos, cantar de galos, cacarejar de galinhas.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

cantar

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) alternative form of chantar (“to sing”)

Inherited from Latin cantāre, frequentative of canere. Cognate with English chant.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtaɾ/ [kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: can‧tar

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite canté, past participle cantado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to sing

   Voy a cantarme una canción

   I am going to sing (myself) a song

• Chavacano: canta
• → Cebuano: kanta
• → Tagalog: kanta
• → Ye'kwana: ekanta'ñö, etanta'ñö

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. a type of shanty or popular song

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

• tranca

From Latin cantāre, frequentative of canere. Compare Italian cantare.

cantar

1. to sing

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.