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1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 605:
[Et] poserõ perlos muros beesteyros et arque[yro]s muytos et outros, pera deytar quantos et paos agudos metudos en ferros, en guisa que os que se quisesem chegar ao muro nõ podesem escapar de morte
And they arranged many crossbowmen and bowmen on the walls, an others to throw stones and sharp sticks inserted in irons, so as the ones who wanted to come near the wall could not escape death
“canto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“canto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“canto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“canto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
^ cf. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635
From Latincanthus, from Ancient Greekκανθός(kanthós), meaning corner, specifically the corner of the eye. Or from a Vulgar Latin*cantus, a word of Mediterranean origin akin to the aforementioned Greek term
“canto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“canto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
canto 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)
canto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
canto in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016