canor

Latin

Etymology

From canō +‎ -or.

Noun

canor m (genitive canōris); third declension

  1. song, tune, melody
    • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 4.180:
      Parvus ut est cycni melior canor, ille gruum quam clamor.
      Just as a small song of a swan is better than the racket of the cranes.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative canor canōrēs
Genitive canōris canōrum
Dative canōrī canōribus
Accusative canōrem canōrēs
Ablative canōre canōribus
Vocative canor canōrēs

Derived terms

Verb

canor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of canō

References
  • “canor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “canor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • canor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • canor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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