cantar
Meaning
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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
Frequency
Hyphenated as
can‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kɐ̃ˈta(ʁ)/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre.
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