cancan
See also: can-can
English edit
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Noun edit
cancan (plural cancans)
- A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began.
- (motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side.
Translations edit
dance
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Verb edit
cancan (third-person singular simple present cancans, present participle cancanning, simple past and past participle cancanned)
- To dance the cancan.
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Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cancan m (plural cancans)
- cancan (French dance)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑŋkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋkɑ̝n]
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑnˌkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋˌkɑ̝n]
- IPA(key): /ˈkænˌkæn/, [ˈk̟æŋˌk̟æn]
Noun edit
cancan
Declension edit
Inflection of cancan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | cancan | cancanit | ||
genitive | cancanin | cancanien | ||
partitive | cancania | cancaneja | ||
illative | cancaniin | cancaneihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | cancan | cancanit | ||
accusative | nom. | cancan | cancanit | |
gen. | cancanin | |||
genitive | cancanin | cancanien | ||
partitive | cancania | cancaneja | ||
inessive | cancanissa | cancaneissa | ||
elative | cancanista | cancaneista | ||
illative | cancaniin | cancaneihin | ||
adessive | cancanilla | cancaneilla | ||
ablative | cancanilta | cancaneilta | ||
allative | cancanille | cancaneille | ||
essive | cancanina | cancaneina | ||
translative | cancaniksi | cancaneiksi | ||
abessive | cancanitta | cancaneitta | ||
instructive | — | cancanein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “cancan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as [ˈkʷam.kʷã(m)] but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cancan m (plural cancans)
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References edit
- ^ Allen, W. Sidney. Vox Latina. Cambridge U. Press 1978 p. 107.
Further reading edit
- “cancan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cancan n (plural cancanuri)
Declension edit
Declension of cancan
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cancan | cancanul | (niște) cancanuri | cancanurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) cancan | cancanului | (unor) cancanuri | cancanurilor |
vocative | cancanule | cancanurilor |
Swedish edit
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cancan c
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Declension of cancan | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | cancan | cancanen | — | — |
Genitive | cancans | cancanens | — | — |