Noun: canto
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | canto |
| Plural m | cantos |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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[Et] poserõ perlos muros beesteyros et arque[yro]s muytos et outros, pera deytar quantos et paos agudos metudos en ferros, en guisa que os que se quisesem chegar ao muro nõ podesem escapar de morte (And they arranged many crossbowmen and bowmen on the walls, an others to throw stones and sharp sticks inserted in irons, so as the ones who wanted to come near the wall could not escape death) [1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 605:]
Nouns inflected like canto
miligramo,
mililitro,
acontecemento,
urodelo,
ancoradoiro,
vimieiro,
serrón,
sesego,
sedeño,
iceberg,
sarrio,
sabuio,
sabugo,
sabujo,
sabuxo,
sabelo,
sangue,
saibro,
saltón,
salmón, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese canto, from Latin cantus. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
canto', Latin Nouns '
cantus'.
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