cantio

Latin

Etymology

From canō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ti.oː/, [ˈkän̪t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.t͡si.o/, [ˈkänt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

cantiō f (genitive cantiōnis); third declension

1. song, singing, playing

   Synonym: carmen

   • LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA INEPTOS CRITICOS. (Concluding statements of Century VI, Prophecies of Nostradamus)
2. incantation, spell

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cantiō	cantiōnēs
Genitive	cantiōnis	cantiōnum
Dative	cantiōnī	cantiōnibus
Accusative	cantiōnem	cantiōnēs
Ablative	cantiōne	cantiōnibus
Vocative	cantiō	cantiōnēs

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: chançon
• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: canzon
  • Piedmontese: canson
  • Romagnol: canzòn
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: canzona

    Gallurese: canzona

  • Italian: canzone
    • → English: canzone
    • → Romanian: canțonă
  • Neapolitan: canzona
  • Sicilian: canzuna
  • Sassarese: canzoni, canzona
• Old French: chançon, canchon, cançun
  • French: chanson (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: cânchon, caunchoun
  • Picard: canchon
  • Walloon: tchanson
• Old Occitan: canczon
  • Catalan: cançó
  • Occitan: cançon
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: cjançon
  • Romansch: chanzun, canzun, canzùn, canzung
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: cantzoni

  Logudorese: cantone

  Nuorese: cancione

• Venetian: canson
  • →⇒ Cimbrian: kansüunle
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: canción
    • Mirandese: cancion
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cançon
    • Galician: canción
    • Portuguese: canção
  • Old Spanish: cançón
• → English: cantion
• → Spanish: canción (semi-learned)

References

• “cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cantio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.