Translation
singer
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from kanti, 'to sing', and the professional suffix -ist-. Kanti is from Latin cantare, the frequentative of canere, 'to sing'.
- Origin
- Esperanto
- Root
- kanti + -ist-
- English cognates
- chant, cantata, incantation
Examples
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The young singer stood on the stage.
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She wants to become a singer in a big theatre.
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The singer and the musicians sang until midnight.
Kanti plus -- and you are done. The suffix names the professional or the committed practitioner, and it runs right across the trades: instruisto, kuracisto, ĵurnalisto, pentristo, komercisto, muzikisto. See the people-making affixes for the whole family.
A gap worth flagging while you are here: the verb kanti has a page and the noun , a song, does not yet. is the song, o is singing as an activity, is the person, and kanzono is the art song or chanson specifically, borrowed from French for the genre rather than the general word.
is gender-neutral. o exists and is a woman singer; whether you need to say so is a choice, and modern usage increasingly does not.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 21, lesson 12: kantisto, delegito, konsumi and 7 more words.