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