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canticum

Dictionary entries

  • canticus, cantica, canticum:

    Adjective · 1st declension

    Frequency:
    Very Rare
    Dictionary:
    Lewis & Short
    Age:
    Late
    Field:
    Arts

    = musical;

    Entry →
    acc. sg. (m.)
    acc. sg. (n.)
    nom. sg. (n.)
    voc. sg. (n.)
  • canticum, cantici:

    Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension

    Frequency:
    Common
    Dictionary:
    Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
    Field:
    Arts

    = song; passage in a comedy chanted or sung; sing-song voice;

    Entry →
    acc. sg.
    gen. pl.
    nom. sg.
    voc. sg.

Examples

  • G

    SATIRICON LIBER

    Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)

    "...Atque ipse etiam taeterrima voce de Laserpiciario mimo canticum extorsit. Nos ut tristiores ad tam viles accessimus cibos..."
  • G

    Galba

    Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM

    "...fuit, inde proximo spectaculo apparuit, siquidem Atellanis notissimum canticum exorsis: venit Onesimus a villa cuncti simul spectatores consentiente..."
  • M

    Liber I

    Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES

    "...poetae canere testantur, non tamen in canticum dissoluta nec plasmate, ut nunc a plerisque fit, effeminata..."
  • G

    Liber V

    Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE

    "...gratulari fautores putat.Equester ordo stultum errorem intellegitmagnoque risu canticum repeti iubet.Iteratur illud. Homo meus se in pulpitototum prosternit..."
  • T

    Liber VII

    Titus Livius (Livy)

    "...petita puerum ad canendum ante tibicinem cum statuisset, canticum egisse aliquanto magis vigente motu quia nihil vocis usus..."

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