cantas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →canto, cantare, cantavi, cantatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Arts
sing; play (roles/music); recite; praise, celebrate; forewarn; enchant, bewitch;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →cano, canere, cecini, cantus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sing, celebrate, chant; crow; recite; play (music)/sound (horn); foretell;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...PHAN. Immo suom patrem illic perdidit. TH. Vera cantas. PHAN. Vana vellem. patris amicu's videlicet..."Liber XII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...belle! XL Mentiris, credo: recitas mala carmina, laudo: Cantas, canto: bibis, Pontiliane, bibo: Pedis, dissimulo: gemma vis ludere..."Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...lector amice, mihi, qui legis et tota cantas mea carmina Roma: sed nescis quanti stet mihi talis amor..."Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...belle; bellus grammaticus, bellus es astrologus, et belle cantas et saltas, Attice, belle; bellus es arte lyrae, bellus..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...licet turba. Rides in aurem, quereris, arguis, ploras, cantas in aurem, iudicas, taces, clamas, adeoque penitus sedit..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...optime C. Caesarem praetextatum adhuc accepimus dixisse: "si cantas, male cantas: Si legis, cantas". III. Nec prosopopoeias..."Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...dulci mensa merumque ioco. Si vox est, canta: si mollia brachia, salta: Et quacumque potes dote placere, place..."