cantiga
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.
Noun[edit]
cantiga (plural cantigas)
- A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.
- 2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times[1]:
- The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.
Anagrams[edit]
Galician[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cantǐcā or *cantīcā.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cantiga f (plural cantigas)
- Alternative form of cántiga
References[edit]
- “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “cantiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cantiga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cantiga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cantiga”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Old Galician-Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cantiga f (plural cantigas)
- song (musical composition with lyrics)
Descendants[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: can‧ti‧ga
Noun[edit]
cantiga f (plural cantigas)
- folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
- cantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
- (by extension) any song
- (figurative, colloquial) nonsense; story
Related terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
cantiga f (plural cantigas)
Further reading[edit]
- “cantiga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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