Latin

Noun

canticum n ‎(genitive canticī); second declension

1. song
2. passage in a comedy chanted or sung
3. sing-song voice
4. lampoon or libelous song
5. incantation or magic formula

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• canticulum
• cantica

Descendants

References

• canticum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canticum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CANTICUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “canticum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a choric ode in a tragedy: carmen chori, canticum
    
  • a choric ode: canticum
    
• canticum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canticum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin