cantiga

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English

Etymology

From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

Noun

cantiga (plural cantigas)

  1. A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.
    • 2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times‎:
      The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.

Anagrams

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cantǐcā or *cantīcā.

Pronunciation

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

  1. Alternative form of cántiga

References

  • “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “cantiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cantiga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cantiga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cantiga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

  1. song (musical composition with lyrics)

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: can‧ti‧ga

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

  1. folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
  2. cantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
  3. (by extension) any song
  4. (figurative, colloquial) nonsense; story
    Synonyms: léria, mentira

Related terms

Spanish

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

  1. cantiga

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