cantar

cantar (plural cantars)

1. Alternative spelling of kantar

• arctan

From Latin cantāre.

cantar

1. to sing

From Latin cantāre.

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

1. to sing

Inherited from Latin cantāre.

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

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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

1. to sing

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre.

• 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/[1]

cantar

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

• chantar

From Old Occitan cantar, chantar, from Latin cantāre.

• IPA^(key): [kanˈta]

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cantar

1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Provençal) to sing

• cantador

Inherited from Latin cantāre, frequentative from canere.

• IPA^(key): /kã.ˈtaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

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 (see there for further descendants)

• chantar (northern)

From Latin cantāre.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtaɾ/, (northern) /t͡ʃan-/

cantar

1. to sing

• Occitan: cantar, chantar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cantar, from Latin cantāre.

• Hyphenation: can‧tar

cantar m (plural cantares)

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

   Synonym: canto

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

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

   Synonym: seduzir

   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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cantar.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: kanta
• Kabuverdianu: kanta
• Papiamentu: kanta

cantar

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) Alternative form of chantar (“to sing”)

Inherited from Latin cantāre, frequentative of canere. Cognate with English chant.

• 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

• Chavacano: canta
• → Cebuano: kanta
• → Tagalog: kanta
• → Ye'kwana: ekanta'ñö, etanta'ñö

cantar m (plural cantares)

1. a type of shanty or popular song

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

• tranca

From Latin cantāre, frequentative of canere. 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.