canté

canté

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of cantar

Unknown. Attested since the 18th century. Cognate with rural northern Portuguese canté.

canté

1. (dated, idiomatic) certainly; you bet
2. (dated, idiomatic) if only
   • 1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:

     Ahi vay esa esmoliña
     p'rá à virxen à empregà
     que che lla dou de boa mentes;
     ¡cantè quen poidera mais!

     There it goes this little alms,
     Apply it to the Virgin
     because I give it to her willingly
     If only I could give more!

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “canté”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “canté”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “canté”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin cantāre.

• IPA^(key): /kaŋˈte/

canté

1. to sing

• IPA^(key): /kanˈte/
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: can‧té

canté

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of cantar