cantus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin cantus (literally “song, chant”). === Noun === cantus (music) Synonym of superius. ==== Related terms ==== cantus firmus == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of canō. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkan.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkan.tus] ==== Participle ==== cantus (feminine canta, neuter cantum); first/second-declension participle sung, recited sounded, blew chanted ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From canō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== cantus m (genitive cantūs); fourth declension song, singing chant, incantation crowing, crow (sound certain birds make) ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== cantus m (genitive cantī); second declension alternative spelling of canthus (“wheel, carriage tire”) ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. === References === === Further reading === “cantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cantus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Sardinian == === Noun === cantus m pl plural of cantu