cantuum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cantus, cantus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
song, chant; singing; cry (bird); blast (trumpet); poem, poetry; incantation;
gen. pl.
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...synphoniam ferunt secum in auribus modulationem illam acdulcedinem cantuum, quae cogitationes inpedit nec ad seria patitur intendi..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...cohortis, quam Romanus promptam ad pericula nec minus cantuum et armorum tumultu trucem haud procul instruxerat. Translata dehinc..."