canor Latin · revision 9913

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''canor''' ''m'' (genitive canōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|canō|-or|t1=to sing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨canō⟩ to [[itc-pro|*kan-e-]], from [[ine-pro|*kh₂n-e-|t=to sing]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Lucretius, ''cycnī canor'' “the song of the swan”.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Lucretius 96–55 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Poetic or post-Augustan and rare, it meant tune, sound, song, melody, vocal music, as in Lucretius and Ovid, and a poetic strain, as in Petronius and Quintilian.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant song.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for song, music, worship.^(DMLBS) De Vaan notes that the adjective [[canōrus]] is derived from it.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of song.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Tune, song, [[m|en|melody]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A poetic strain.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[canōrus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[canō]]

+ * [[cantus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}