Noun: canto
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | canto |
| Plural m | cantos |
Sample Sentences
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Os quatro cantos do mundo (The four corners of the world)
Nouns inflected like canto
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
canto', Latin Nouns '
cantus', English Nouns '
chant'.
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