Where does “canto” come from?
canto (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus, from Latin canere, from Latin caneo, from Latin -eo, from Proto-Italic -ēō, from Proto-Italic -ējō, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₁yeti — Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots.
canto (Galician): singing; hymn, song; first-person singular...
Definitions
- singing; hymn, song; first-person singular...
Ancestry of “canto”, step by step
canto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old Portuguese canto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | canto | — |
| 2 | Latin | cantus | sung, recited; sounded, blew; chanted |
| 3 | Latin | canere | present active infinitive of canō; second-person... |
| 4 | Latin | caneo | I am white, gray or hoary |
| 5 | Latin | -eo | Forms stative verbs from adjectives; dative... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ēō | Forms stative verbs, indicating a state of being;... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ējō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₁yeti | Thematicization of the athematic stative verbal... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yeti | Creates transitive imperfective verbs from roots |