cantatrice
English
editEtymology
editFrom French or Italian cantatrice.
Noun
editcantatrice (plural cantatrices or cantatrici)
- A professional female singer.
- 1899, Richard Savage, “Love's Legacy”, in Our Mysterious Passenger: And Other Stories, page 195:
- An hour later we left the Colosseum, but not till we had heard that soaring voice again, vibrating in our very hearts, and saw the young cantatrice appear with a knot of Russian violets pinned upon the bosom which rose and fell in an ecstasy of song.
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian cantatrice, from Latin cantātrīcem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcantatrice f (plural cantatrices)
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editFurther reading
edit- “cantatrice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
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editAdjective
editcantatrice
Noun
editcantatrice f (plural cantatrici)
- female equivalent of cantatore
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