cantiga

From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

cantiga (plural cantigas)

1. A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.
   • 2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.

• agnatic

• cántega, cántiga

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cantǐcā or *cantīcā.^[1]

• Hyphenation: can‧ti‧ga

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. alternative form of cántiga

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cantiga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cantiga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cantiga”, 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), “cantiga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cantiga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “cantiga”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “cantiga” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• IPA^(key): /kã.ˈti.ɡa/

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. song (musical composition with lyrics)

• Galician: cántiga, cántega, cantiga
• Portuguese: cantiga
  • → English: cantiga

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

• Hyphenation: can‧ti‧ga

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
2. cantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
3. (by extension) any song
4. (figurative, colloquial) nonsense; story

   Synonyms: léria, mentira

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtiɡa/ [kãn̪ˈt̪i.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: can‧ti‧ga

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. cantiga

• “cantiga”, 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