Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin cantillāre (to hum; to chirp).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kan.tilˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: can‧til‧là‧re

Verb

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  This Italian verb needs to be reviewed and cleaned up.
The definition(s) may be wrong or misleading, and important senses may be missing. The specified auxiliary may also be wrong. The remainder of the conjugation is probably correct for -are verbs but may be wrong in some particulars for -ire verbs (especially the present participle).

cantillàre (first-person singular present cantìllo, first-person singular past historic cantillài, past participle cantillàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) to hum
    Synonyms: canterellare, canticchiare

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • cantillare in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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Latin

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Verb

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cantillāre

  1. inflection of cantillō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative