different between chanter vs canter

English

Alternative forms

• chantor

Etymology

From Middle English chauntour, from Old French chanteor, from Latin cantor; equivalent to chant +? -er. Compare French chanteur. Doublet of cantor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???nt?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?ænt?/
• Rhymes: -ænt?(?), -??nt?(?)

Noun

chanter (plural chanters)

1. One who chants or sings.
2. A priest who sings in a chantry.
3. The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
4. The hedge sparrow.
5. (archaic) One who sells horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.

Translations

Anagrams

• tranche

French

Etymology

From Middle French chanter, from Old French chanter, from Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant? (“I sing”), frequentative of can?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh?n-. Cognate with Italian cantare, Spanish cantar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.te/

Verb

chanter

1. to sing
2. to crow

Conjugation

Derived terms

• chanter comme une casserole
• faire chanter

Related terms

• chanson
• chant
• chanteur
• chantonner
• chantre
• faire chanter
• chantage
• chantable

Further reading

• “chanter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "chanter"

Anagrams

• chantre, tranche, tranché

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chanter.

Verb

chanter

1. to sing

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: chanter

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French chanter, from Old French chanter, from Latin cant?, cantare (“sing”, verb).

Pronunciation

Verb

chanter (gerund chant'tie)

1. (Jersey) to sing

Old French

Alternative forms

• canter (Normandy, Picardy, Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

First known attestation circa 980 as canter. From Latin cant?re, present active infinitive of cant? (“I sing”).

Verb

chanter

1. to pray (to God)
2. to sing
3. to retell, to recount

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Synonyms

• (to retell): conter

Descendants

• French: chanter
• Bourguignon: chantai
• tchaintaie (Franche-Comté)
• Norman: canter
• Picard: canter

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) chantar
• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) cantar

Etymology

From Latin cant?, cant?re.

Verb

chanter

1. (Puter) to sing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kænt?(?)/
• Rhymes: -ænt?(?)

Etymology 1

Short for Canterbury pace, from the supposed easy pace of medieval pilgrims to Canterbury.

Noun

canter (plural canters)

1. A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals.
2. A ride on a horse at such speed.

Translations

Verb

canter (third-person singular simple present canters, present participle cantering, simple past and past participle cantered)

1. (intransitive) To move at such pace.
2. (transitive) To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.

Derived terms

• in a canter, at a canter

Translations

Etymology 2

cant +? -er

Noun

canter (plural canters)

1. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
2. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.

Anagrams

• Cretan, carnet, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance

Latin

Verb

canter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cant?

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

canter

1. (nautical) to list
2. (reflexive) to lean

Old French

Etymology

Latin cant?.

Verb

canter

1. (Northern dialect) Alternative form of chanter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Picard

Etymology

From Old French canter, northern variant of Old French chanter, from Vulgar Latin *cant?.

Verb

canter

1. to sing

   Ej vouroè prinde ed ches lchons por aprinde à canter conme i feut.

   I would like to take some lessons to learn to sing correctly.

Conjugation