canor

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-der.

Proto-Italic *kanō

Latin canō

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *-ōs

Proto-Italic *-ōs

Latin -or

Latin canor

From canō + -or.

Noun

canor m (genitive canōris); third declension

1. song, tune, melody
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 4.180:

     Parvus ut est cycni melior canor, ille gruum quam clamor.

     Just as a small song of a swan is better than the racket of the cranes.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	canor	canōrēs
genitive	canōris	canōrum
dative	canōrī	canōribus
accusative	canōrem	canōrēs
ablative	canōre	canōribus
vocative	canor	canōrēs

Derived terms

• canōrus

Verb

canor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of canō

References

• “canor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “canor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "canor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “canor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.