cantio

Latin

Etymology

From canō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.ti.oː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkan.t̪͡s̪i.o]

Noun

cantiō f (genitive cantiōnis); third declension

song, singing, playing
Synonym: carmen
- LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA INEPTOS CRITICOS. (Concluding statements of Century VI, Prophecies of Nostradamus)
incantation, spell

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cantiō	cantiōnēs
genitive	cantiōnis	cantiōnum
dative	cantiōnī	cantiōnibus
accusative	cantiōnem	cantiōnēs
ablative	cantiōne	cantiōnibus
vocative	cantiō	cantiōnēs

Derived terms

cantiōnālis

Descendants

Franco-Provençal: chançon
Gallo-Italic
- Lombard: canzon
- Piedmontese: canson
- Romagnol: canzòn
Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: canzona
  Gallurese: canzona
- Italian: canzone
  - → English: canzone
  - → Romanian: canțonă
- Neapolitan: canzona
- Sicilian: canzuna
- Sassarese: canzoni, canzona
Old French: chançon, canchon, cançun
- Champenois: chanson (Troyen), tainson (Rémois)
- Franc-Comtois: tchainson
- Middle French: chanson f
  - French: chanson f (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: cânchon f
- Picard: canchon f
- Walloon: tchanson f
Old Occitan: canczon
- Catalan: cançó
- Occitan: cançon
Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: cjançon
- Romansch: chanzun, canzun, canzùn, canzung
Sardinian:
Campidanese: cantzoni

Logudorese: cantone
Nuorese: cancione
Venetan: canson
- →⇒ Cimbrian: kansüunle
West Iberian
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: canción
  - Mirandese: cancion
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cançon
  - Galician: canción
  - Portuguese: canção
- Old Spanish: cançón
→ English: cantion
→ Spanish: canción (semi-learned)

References

“cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cantio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.