canticum

From Latin canticum (“chant, song”).

canticum (plural cantica)

1. A canticle.
2. A part song in an ancient play.

cantus (“song, chant, singing, incantation”) +‎ -icus (suffix forming neuter nouns)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.tɪ.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan̪.t̪i.kum]

canticum n (genitive canticī); second declension

1. song
2. passage in a comedy chanted or sung
3. sing-song voice
4. lampoon or libelous song
5. incantation or magic formula

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• canticulum
• cantica

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• “canticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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• canticum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
    
  • a choric ode: canticum
    
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