Translation
chanson, art song
Word origin
From French chanson, from Latin cantio, a singing, on the verb canere ('to sing'). Esperanto's own kanti comes from the same Latin verb, so kanto and kanzono are cousins that entered the language by different doors.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- chanson
- English cognates
- chanson, chant, cantata
Examples
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She sang an old chanson about the sea.
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People applauded after every song.
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His voice is too loud for a song like that.
Do not treat this as a plain synonym of . is the general
word and covers anything sung: a hymn, a nursery rhyme, a football chant.
is narrower and borrowed from the French tradition, so it means
the art song, the chanson, a set poem with a tune and something to say.
When a village contest bills a it is promising words worth
listening to, not just a tune. The -on- in the middle is not the
fraction suffix that makes out of ; the root is the whole
-.
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