kántor

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cantor (singer).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: kán‧tor
  • Rhymes: -or

Noun

kántor (plural kántorok)

  1. (religion) cantor, chanter (a person who plays the organ in a church, usually sings professionally at church services and funerals, or leads the singing)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative kántor kántorok
accusative kántort kántorokat
dative kántornak kántoroknak
instrumental kántorral kántorokkal
causal-final kántorért kántorokért
translative kántorrá kántorokká
terminative kántorig kántorokig
essive-formal kántorként kántorokként
essive-modal
inessive kántorban kántorokban
superessive kántoron kántorokon
adessive kántornál kántoroknál
illative kántorba kántorokba
sublative kántorra kántorokra
allative kántorhoz kántorokhoz
elative kántorból kántorokból
delative kántorról kántorokról
ablative kántortól kántoroktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
kántoré kántoroké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
kántoréi kántorokéi
Possessive forms of kántor
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. kántorom kántoraim
2nd person sing. kántorod kántoraid
3rd person sing. kántora kántorai
1st person plural kántorunk kántoraink
2nd person plural kántorotok kántoraitok
3rd person plural kántoruk kántoraik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ kántor in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

  • kántor in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN