different between galician vs cantiga

Romanian

Etymology

From Galicia +? -an.

Adjective

galician m or n (feminine singular galician?, masculine plural galicieni, feminine and neuter plural galiciene)

1. Galician (of Galicia in Iberia)

Declension

Related terms

• Galicia

Noun

galician m (plural galicieni, feminine equivalent galician?)

1. Galician (person of Galicia in Iberia)

Declension

References

• galician in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Portuguese cantiga.

Noun

cantiga (plural cantigas)

1. A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.

Anagrams

• agnatic

Galician

Alternative forms

• cántega, cántiga

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cant?c? or *cant?c?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?n?ti??]

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. Alternative form of cántiga

References

• “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cantiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cantiga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cantiga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã.?ti.?a/

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. song (musical composition with lyrics)

Descendants

• Galician: cántiga, cántega, cantiga
• Portuguese: cantiga
  • ? English: cantiga

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cantiga.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??.?ti.??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /k??.?t??i.??/
• Hyphenation: can?ti?ga

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
2. cantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
3. (by extension) any song
4. (figuratively, colloquial) nonsense; story

   Synonyms: léria, mentira

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