cántico
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin canticum (“song, chanted passage in a comedy”), from cantus (“song”), from canō (“to sing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cántico m (plural cánticos)
- chant, canticle
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 156:
- Tócale ahora su turno a la Maunífica (Magníficat), que no es otra cosa que el cántico que entonó María delante de su prima Isabel, eso sí que monstruosamente alterado, por lo menos en la variante que yo he recogido.
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Further reading
- “cántico”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10