canto
Betekenis (English)
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- (masculine) singing (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds)
- (masculine) chant
- (masculine) a bird’s song
- (figuratively, masculine) any pleasant sound
- (masculine) canto
Frequentie
Met koppelteken als
can‧to
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈkɐ̃.tu/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant.
Nieuw
cantar
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- (intransitive) to sing (express sounds musically through the voice)
- (transitive) to sing, to say musically
- (transitive) to say with rhythm, chant
- (Brazil, colloquial, transitive) to attempt to seduce by flattery
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