cantata

From Italian cantata. Doublet of chanty.

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɑːtə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːtə

cantata (plural cantatas or (less common, modeled on Italian) cantate)

1. (music) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.

• The regularly formed plural cantatas is by far the most common, though the Italian-style plural cantate is not completely unheard-of.

• sonata

Borrowed from Italian cantata.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kənˈta.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kanˈta.ta]

cantata f (plural cantates)

1. (music) cantata

• “cantata”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cantata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “cantata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈta.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: can‧tà‧ta

cantata f (plural cantate)

1. song
2. singalong

• → Catalan: cantata
• → English: cantata
• → Spanish: cantata

cantata f sg

1. feminine singular of cantato

cantāta

1. inflection of cantātus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

cantātā

1. ablative feminine singular of cantātus

• "cantata", 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)

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtata/

cantata f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cantată

Borrowed from Italian cantata.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtata/ [kãn̪ˈt̪a.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: can‧ta‧ta

cantata f (plural cantatas)

1. (music) cantata

• “cantata”, 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