cantar

cantar (plural cantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar

• arctan

From Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō.

cantar

1. to sing

From Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō.

cantar (first-person singular indicative present canto, past participle cantáu)

1. to sing

From Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō, frequentative of canō. Compare Occitan cantar and chantar.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kənˈta/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kanˈtaɾ/

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

cantar (first-person singular present canto, past participle cantat)

1. to sing

• “cantar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō.

• IPA^(key): [kɑnˈtaɾ]

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite cantei, past participle cantado)

1. to sing
2. to chant
3. (of a cart or wagon) to screech, to squeak (the axle against its bearings)

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. song
   • 1978, Fuxan os Ventos, Sementeira (song):

     Sementar sementarei

     loguiño de crarear

     en tanto no pobo medre

     un meniño, un vello e un cantar

     Sowing I'll sow

     soon after it clears

     as long as among the people grow

     a child, an old man and a song

• “cantar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cantar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cantar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cantar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cantar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtar/

cantar

1. to sing

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan̪ˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/

cantar

1. present indicative/imperative and present subjunctive autonomous of can

• chantar

From Old Occitan cantar, chantar, from Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō, frequentative of canō.

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cantar

1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Provençal) to sing

• cantador

From Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō, frequentative of canō (“I sing”).

• IPA^(key): /kã.ˈtaɾ/

cantar

1. to sing (to produce music with one’s voice)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 6 (facsimile):

     Eſta e como ſanta maria reſſucitou ao menỹo que o Judeu matara por que cantaua Gaude uirgo maria.

     This one is how Holy Mary resurrected the boy who the Jew had killed because he sang Gaude Virgo Maria.

• Fala: cantal
• Galician: cantar
• Portuguese: cantar

From Old Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre, frequentative of canō.

• Hyphenation: can‧tar

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. singing (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds; vocalizing)

   É belíssimo, o cantar deste pássaro! ― The singing of this bird is very beautiful!

   Synonym: canto

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite cantei, past participle cantado)

1. (intransitive) to sing (express sounds musically through the voice)

   Enquanto passeava pelo jardim, ouvi um pássaro cantar. ― While I was walking through the garden, I heard a bird sing.

2. (transitive) to sing, to say musically

   Ela cantou a sua melhor música. ― She sang her best song.

3. (transitive) to say with rhythm, chant

   Enquanto tomava minhas medidas, ele cantava baixinho para si mesmo os números. ― While taking my measures, he was chanting the numbers to himself in a soft voice.

4. (transitive, Brazil, colloquial) to attempt to seduce by flattery

   As únicas coisas que ele faz o dia todo são comer, dormir, e cantar meninas. ― The only things he does all day are eat, sleep and seduce girls.

   Synonym: seduzir

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cantar.

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) chantar
• (Puter) chanter

From Latin cantō, cantāre.

cantar

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) to sing

From Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō, frequentative of canō. Cognate with English chant, French chanter, Italian cantare.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtaɾ/ [kãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: can‧tar

cantar (first-person singular present canto, first-person singular preterite canté, past participle cantado)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to sing

   Voy a cantarme una canción

   I am going to sing (myself) a song

• → Maquiritari: ekanta'ñö, etanta'ñö

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. a type of shanty or popular song

• Cantar de los Cantares
• cantar de gesta (“chanson de geste”)
• ser otro cantar

• “cantar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• tranca

From Latin cantāre, present active infinitive of cantō, frequentative of canō. Compare Italian cantare.

cantar

1. to sing

• Venetian conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.