canor

Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From canō +‎ -or.

Noun

canor m (genitive canōris); third declension

1. song, tune
   • 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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	canor	canōrēs
Genitive	canōris	canōrum
Dative	canōrī	canōribus
Accusative	canōrem	canōrēs
Ablative	canōre	canōribus
Vocative	canor	canōrēs

Derived terms

• canōrus

Verb

(deprecated template usage) 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’s 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.