Where does “Cantophone” come from?
Cantophone (English) comes from English canto, from English Cantonese, from English Canton, from Portuguese Cantão, from Portuguese canto, from Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
Cantophone (English): Cantonese-speaking
Definitions
- Cantonese-speaking
Ancestry of “Cantophone”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | canto | One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a... |
| 2 | English | Cantonese | Relating to Canton; Relating to Cantonese people;... |
| 3 | English | Canton | Guangzhou; Guangdong |
| 4 | Portuguese | Cantão | canton state-level subdivision of Switzerland, Luxembourg and Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 5 | Portuguese | canto | singing; chant; a bird’s song |
| 6 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 7 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 8 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 9 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 10 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |