canticum

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.ti.kum/, [ˈkan.tɪ.kũ]

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative canticum cantica
genitive canticī canticōrum
dative canticō canticīs
accusative canticum cantica
ablative canticō canticīs
vocative canticum cantica

Derived terms

Descendants

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, 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
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