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canto

Pronunciation: /ˈkɐ̃.tu/

“canto” is a Portuguese word. Its 11 meanings in English:

noun

  1. singing (the act of using the voice to produce musical sounds)
  2. chant
  3. a bird’s song
  4. any pleasant sound
  5. canto
  6. corner (space in the angle between converging lines or surfaces)
  7. a remote location
  8. an undetermined or unknown location
  9. the corner of the goal line and touchline
  10. corner kick
  11. type of stone used in the corners of a building

In Portuguese

  1. o ato de cantar
  2. cada uma das grandes divisões de poemas épicos
  3. local onde duas paredes ou linhas se encontram
  4. local onde se mora ou frequenta regularmente
  5. pedra de cantaria
  6. primeira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo do verbo cantar
  7. conta

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus (“song; singing”), perfect passive participle of canō (“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”). Cognate of English chant.

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