Noun: cantone
Gender: m
Hyphenation: can‧tó‧ne
| Singular m | cantone |
| Plural m | cantoni |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cantone
rigeneratore,
biancomangiare,
interneurone,
tiomersale,
chemiorecettore,
posteggiatore,
concelebrante,
pleistocene,
kudu maggiore,
sepide,
setale,
segone,
sedere,
sedime,
sedile,
gremiale,
chiarificatore,
savore,
sapere,
sapone, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From medieval Gallo-Italic chant "edge, corner" plus the -one augmentative suffix.
2. The sense of "a portion of territory" alongside the literal meaning "corner" developed by the early 11th century.
3. The root of chant is ultimately that of Latin cantus (“rim (of a wheel)”). See: Latin Nouns '
canthus'.
Verbs referencing "cantone"
Catalan Nouns
cantó, Swedish Nouns
kanton.
Translations