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6-letter words (4 found)

CANTOR,CARTON,CONTRA,CRATON,

5-letter words (15 found)

ACORN,ACTON,ACTOR,CANTO,CARON,COTAN,NARCO,OCTAN,ORANT,RACON,ROTAN,TAROC,TORAN,TRONA,TRONC,

4-letter words (26 found)

ACRO,ARCO,ATOC,CANT,CARN,CART,COAT,CORN,CRAN,CRON,NARC,NOTA,OCTA,ORCA,RANT,RATO,ROAN,RONT,ROTA,TACO,TARN,TARO,TORA,TORC,TORN,TRON,

3-letter words (29 found)

ACT,ANT,ARC,ART,CAN,CAR,CAT,CON,COR,COT,NAT,NOR,NOT,OAR,OAT,OCA,ORA,ORC,ORT,RAN,RAT,ROC,ROT,TAN,TAO,TAR,TOC,TON,TOR,

2-letter words (9 found)

AN,AR,AT,NA,NO,ON,OR,TA,TO,

You can make 83 words from cantor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cantor

cantor

Alternative forms

  • cantour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cantor, agent noun from perfect passive participle cantus, from verb canere (“to sing”) + agent suffix -or. Doublet of chanter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæntɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈkæntə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -æntə(ɹ)

Noun

cantor (plural cantors)

  1. singer, especially someone who takes a special role of singing or song leading at a ceremony
  2. A prayer leader in a Jewish service; a hazzan

Related terms

  • cantorate
  • cantrix
  • chant

Translations

See also

  • song leader

Anagrams

  • Carnot, Carton, Catron, Contra, TRACON, carton, contra, contra-, corant, craton, tracon

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cantor (“male singer”), cantōrem.

Noun

cantor m (plural cantores)

  1. singer (person who sings)

Synonyms

  • cantante

Related terms

  • cantar

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cantōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [kənˈto]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [kanˈtoɾ]

Noun

cantor m (plural cantors, feminine cantora)

  1. singer (person who sings as a job)
    Hypernym: cantaire
    Hypernym: cantador

Related terms

  • cantar

Further reading

  • “cantor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “cantor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “cantor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “cantor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.tor/, [ˈkän̪t̪ɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkan.tor/, [ˈkän̪t̪or]

Etymology 1

From canō (“I sing”) +‎ -tor.

Noun

cantor m (genitive cantōris, feminine cantrīx); third declension

  1. singer (male)
    Synonym: cantātor
  2. player (male)
Declension

Third-declension noun.

Coordinate terms
  • cantrīx
Related terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Inflected form of cantō (“I sing”).

Verb

cantor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of cantō

References

  • “cantor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cantor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cantor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cantōrem (“male singer”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: can‧tor

Noun

cantor m (plural cantores, feminine cantora, feminine plural cantoras)

  1. singer (person who sings)

Derived terms

  • cantorzinho (diminutive)
  • cantautor

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cantor.

Noun

cantor m (plural cantori)

  1. cantor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cantōrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kanˈtoɾ/ [kãn̪ˈt̪oɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Syllabification: can‧tor

Adjective

cantor (feminine cantora, masculine plural cantores, feminine plural cantoras)

  1. singing

Derived terms

Noun

cantor m (plural cantores, feminine cantora, feminine plural cantoras)

  1. singer

Related terms

Further reading

  • “cantor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin cantor, cantōrem.

Noun

cantor m (plural cantori) or cantor m (plural canturi)

  1. singer, chorister

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh kantor, from Latin cantor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkantɔr/

Noun

cantor f (plural cantorion or cantoriaid, feminine cantores)

  1. singer
    Synonym: canwr

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cantor”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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