Kantor

See also: kantor, kántor, Kántor, käntor, kȧntor, and kantór

English

Etymology

Jewish, Hungarian (Kántor), Slovak (Kántor), German, Czech, and Serbo-Croatian surname, from the noun cantor.

Proper noun

Kantor (plural Kantors)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Kantor is the 8322^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3982 individuals. Kantor is most common among White (95.2%) individuals.

Anagrams

• kontra

Czech

Etymology

From kantor (“cantor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkantor]

Proper noun

Kantor m anim (female equivalent Kantorová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Kantor (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Kantor	Kantorové
genitive	Kantora	Kantorů
dative	Kantorovi	Kantorům
accusative	Kantora	Kantory
vocative	Kantore	Kantorové
locative	Kantorovi	Kantorech
instrumental	Kantorem	Kantory

Further reading

• “Kantor”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

German

Alternative forms

• Cantor (obsolete)

Etymology

15th century, learned borrowing from Latin cantor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkantoːr/, [ˈkan.toːɐ̯], [-tɔɐ̯]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Kantor m (mixed, genitive Kantors, plural Kantoren, feminine Kantorin)

1. cantor
   • 1908, Pauline Wengeroff, Memoiren einer Grossmutter‎^[1], volume I, Berlin: M. Poppelauer:

     Der Kantor stimmte ein Gebet an, sagte Kadisch (das übliche Totengebet), und der große Kondukt setzte sich in Bewegung.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Kantor [masculine, mixed]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Kantor	die	Kantoren
genitive	eines	des	Kantors	der	Kantoren
dative	einem	dem	Kantor	den	Kantoren
accusative	einen	den	Kantor	die	Kantoren

See also

• Kontor n (not to be confused)

Further reading

• “Kantor” in Duden online
• “Kantor” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache