canta

See also: cantá, cantà, cânta, cantâ, cântă, and çanta

Asturian

Verb

canta

1. third-person singular present indicative of cantar
2. second-person singular imperative of cantar

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈkan.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkan.ta]

Verb

canta

1. inflection of cantar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cantar (“to sing”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /canˈta/ [can.ˈta]

• Hyphenation: can‧ta

Verb

cantá

1. to sing

Conjugation

Verb conjugation for canta

	Zamboanga City	Cavite
tense	canta
past	ya canta
present	ta canta
future	ay canta; canta; el canta; (rural/archaic) ey canta	di canta
gerund	cantando	?
past participle	cantao; cantado
infinitive	canta
manner	cantada
reciprocal	cantahan
reciprocal past	ya man cantahan; ya'n cantahan
reciprocal present	ta man cantahan; ta'n cantahan
reciprocal future	ay man cantahan; man cantahan; el man cantahan; (rural/archaic) ey man cantahan
reciprocal infinitive	man cantahan

Related terms

• cancion
• cantada
• cantao
• canto

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkantɐ/

Pronoun

canta f (masculine singular canto, masculine plural cantos, feminine plural cantas)

1. (interrogative) how much

Verb

canta

1. inflection of cantar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkan̪ˠt̪ˠə]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

canta m (genitive singular canta, nominative plural cantaí)

1. chunk

Declension

Declension of canta (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative canta cantaí vocative a chanta a chantaí genitive canta cantaí dative canta cantaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an canta na cantaí genitive an chanta na gcantaí dative leis an gcanta don chanta leis na cantaí

Derived terms

• cantáil (“break off in chunks; grab, devour”, verb)

Etymology 2

Verb

canta

1. past participle of can

Adjective

canta

1. nice; neat, pretty

Derived terms

• cantacht f (“beauty, adornment”)

Noun

canta m

1. genitive singular of canadh

Mutation

Mutated forms of canta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
canta	chanta	gcanta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “canta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Italian

Verb

canta

1. inflection of cantare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• tanca

Latin

Verb

cantā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cantō

References

• “canta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "canta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.tɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ̃.tɐ/

• Hyphenation: can‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ

Verb

canta

1. inflection of cantar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Sassarese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanta/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

canta

1. feminine singular of cantu

Pronoun

canta

1. feminine singular of cantu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

canta

1. inflection of cantà:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanta/ [ˈkãn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: can‧ta

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-

Proto-Indo-European *-éti

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂néti

Proto-Italic *kanō

Latin canō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin cantāre

Spanish cantardeverb.

Spanish canta

Deverbal from cantar.

Noun

canta f (plural cantas)

1. (Aragon, Venezuela) song; singing

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

canta

1. inflection of cantar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “canta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026

Venetan

Noun

canta f (plural cante)

1. popular song