canticum

English

Etymology

From Latin canticum (“chant, song”).

Noun

canticum (plural cantica)

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	canticum	cantica
genitive	canticī	canticōrum
dative	canticō	canticīs
accusative	canticum	cantica
ablative	canticō	canticīs
vocative	canticum	cantica

Derived terms

• canticulum
• cantica

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cãntic
  • Megleno-Romanian: cǫntic
  • Romanian: cântec
  • → Albanian: këngë
• >? Sardinian: canticu, cantigu
• → Catalan: càntic
• → French: cantique
• → Italian: cantico
• → Norman: cantique
• → Piedmontese: càntich
• → Portuguese: cântico
• → Spanish: cántico

References

• “canticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “canticum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "canticum", 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)
• “canticum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
    
  • a choric ode: canticum
    
• “canticum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “canticum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “canticum”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 125
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “canticum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 234