canticum Latin · revision 8466

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cicero|origins=la canō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkan.tɪ.kũː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkan.ti.kum]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''canticum''' ''n'' (genitive canticī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[cantus]] “song” with the suffix [[-icus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Cicero, of a sung passage in a comedy.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a passage in a comedy that was chanted or sung, and singsong speech, as in Cicero, and in Petronius a song.^(OLD 2012) Isidore defines it as the voice of one singing for joy.^(Isidore) Döderlein explains that ''canere'' is making music of any kind, ''cantāre'' singing with the voice.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Christian Latin it meant a hymn, a psalm, a canticle.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for a song, ballad, and a byword.^(DMLBS) It survives in Romanian ''cântec'' “song”, and its diminutive ''canticulum'' gave [[en|canticle]] in the early 13th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a sung passage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 66 AD – Petronius uses it of a song.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 13th century – English ''canticle'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A sung passage in a comedy.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A song.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Singsong speech.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' A [[m|en|hymn]], [[m|en|canticle]], psalm.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[canticulum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cantus]]

+ * [[cantō]]

+ * [[en|canticle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}