chantre

Inherited from Old French chantre, from Latin cantor, via the nominative form. Compare chanteur, derived from the Latin accusative cantōrem.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɑ̃tʁ/

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chantre m or f by sense (plural chantres, feminine chantresse)

1. (archaic) (singing) singer, songster
2. (religion) cantor
3. (literary) bard, minstrel
4. (figuratively) figurehead; champion; advocate

   Friedrich Nietzsche est le chantre de l’apocalypse de la modernité.

   Friedrich Nietzsche is the champion of the apocalypse of modernity.

• chanson
• chanter
• chantreresse (attested in the 16th century)
• chanteur

• “chantre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• chanter
• tranche, tranché

chantre

1. Alternative form of chaunterie

• Hyphenation: chan‧tre

chantre m (plural chantres)

1. chanter (a priest who sings in a chantry)

Borrowed from French chantre.

chantre m or f by sense (plural chantres)

1. precentor (person who leads songs or prayers)

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