canticum

English

Etymology

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) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ti.kum/, [ˈkän̪t̪ɪkʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ti.kum/, [ˈkän̪t̪ikum]

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).

Case	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^[1], 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 (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 234