cantu

From Latin cantus. Cognates include Italian canto and French chant.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkãtu/
• Hyphenation: can‧tu

cantu m (plural canti)

1. singing

• cantà, canzona

• Gallurese: cantu

• “cantu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Corsican cantu, from Latin cantus (“song; chant”), from the perfect passive participle of canō (“I sing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.tu/

cantu m (plural canti)

1. singing, chant

cantū

1. ablative singular of cantus

From Latin cantus (“song; chant”), from the perfect passive participle of canō (“I sing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkantu/

cantu m (plural cantos)

1. (Logudorese, Nuorese) singing, chant

cantu m (plural cantus)

1. (Campidanese) singing, chant

• IPA^(key): /ˈkantu/

From Latin quantus (“how much; how big”), from Proto-Italic *kʷijentos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷíh₂onts, derived from *kʷíh₂, neuter of *kʷís.

• cant' (apocopic, used before a vowel)

cantu (feminine singular canta, masculine and feminine plural canti)

1. how, how much, how many

   E cant’anni v’hai? ― And how old are you? (literally, “And how many years do you have there?”)

   • 1866, Luigi Luciano Bonaparte, “Cap. ⅩⅤ [Chapter 15]”, in Il Vangelo di S. Matteo volgarizzato in dialetto sardo sassarese‎, London, section 34, page 42:

     E Gesù li dizisi: canti pani abeddi?

     And Jesus asked them "How many loaves do you have?"

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Turrendi a bidda mea [Going Back to My Town]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 89:

     E canti volthi, o bidda mea natiba,
     soggu giuntu a zirchà
     da te li cosi mei chi v’aggiu pessu

     How many times, o native town of mine, have I come to you looking for the things that I have lost here

2. however much, however many

cantu

1. (interrogative) how, how much, how many
   • 1866, Luigi Luciano Bonaparte, “Cap. Ⅻ [Chapter 12]”, in Il Vangelo di S. Matteo volgarizzato in dialetto sardo sassarese‎, London, section 12, page 42:

     Ma cantu più un omu no è megliu d’una pegura?

     But how much more valuable is a person than a sheep?

2. as much as, as many times as
   • 1866, Luigi Luciano Bonaparte, “Cap. ⅩⅩ [Chapter 20]”, in Il Vangelo di S. Matteo volgarizzato in dialetto sardo sassarese‎, London, section 14, page 78:

     Piglia lu chi ti tocca, e vaiddinni: eju vogliu dà ancora a chiltu ultimu cantu a te

     Take what belongs to you and leave. I want to give to this last one as much as [I give] to you.

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “La casa a mari [The Beach House]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 158:

     Eu vuraria signatti,
     e prima di zidì, chissu caminu
     chi cussì poggu dura
     cantu l’isciuma o pigia de lu mari.

     I'd like to teach you, before I give up, about this path, that lasts so little, as much as the foam or the small waves of the sea.

cantu m (feminine singular canta, masculine and feminine plural canti)

1. (interrogative) how much, how many
2. however much, however many

From Latin cantus (“song; chant”), from the perfect passive participle of canō (“I sing”).

cantu m (plural canti)

1. singing, chant
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Sirénziu [Silence]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 99:

     Ma drentu mi duraba un cantu
     di chìguri
     limèndimi lu cori.

     But on the inside lingered a chant of cicadas, filing my heart.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cantu

1. first-person singular present indicative of cantà

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes