Noun: cantor
| Singular | cantor |
| Plural | cantors |
Sample Sentences
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The cantor's place in church is on the right of the choir.
Nouns inflected like cantor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-
3. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂néti
4. Proto-Italic *kanō
5. Latin canō
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
7. Proto-Italic *-tōr
8. Latin -tor
9. Latin cantorbor.
10. English cantor
11. Borrowed from Latin cantor, agent noun from canere (“to sing”) + -tor (agent suffix). Doublet of chanter. See: Latin Nouns '
cantor'.