Noun: cantó
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cantó |
| Plural m | cantons |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like cantó
salvió,
bellugó,
septentrió,
reescalfó,
banderó,
balançó,
petricó,
perelló,
perdigó,
batalló,
penelló,
pendeló,
serpetó,
setmesó,
papalló,
pavelló,
parangó,
pantaló,
positró,
porticó, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin cantus (“rim of a wheel”), a word of Gaulish origin derived from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”). Possibly a borrowing of Italian cantone by means of Occitan and Old French canton. See: Latin Nouns '
cantus', Italian Nouns '
cantone'.
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