cantata

See also: cântată

English

Etymology

From Italian cantata. Doublet of chanty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɑːtə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːtə

Noun

cantata (plural cantatas or (less common, modeled on Italian) cantate)

1. (music) A vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement, typical of 17th and 18th century Italian music.

Usage notes

• The regularly formed plural cantatas is by far the most common, though the Italian-style plural cantate is not completely unheard-of.

Translations

cantata

• Afrikaans: kantate
• Armenian: կանտատա (hy) (kantata)
• Catalan: cantata (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 康塔塔 (zh) (kāngtǎtǎ), 清唱套曲 (qīngchàng tàoqǔ)

• Dutch: cantate (nl) f
• Esperanto: kantato
• Estonian: kantaat
• Finnish: kantaatti (fi)
• French: cantate (fr) f
• German: Kantate (de) f
• Hungarian: kantáta (hu)
• Ido: kantato (io)
• Irish: cantáid f
• Japanese: カンタータ (kantāta), 交声曲 (ja) (こうせいきょく, kōseikyoku)
• Latvian: kantāte
• Macedonian: канта́та f (kantáta)
• Polish: kantata (pl)
• Portuguese: cantata (pt) f
• Romanian: cantată (ro) f
• Russian: канта́та (ru) f (kantáta)
• Spanish: cantata (es) f
• Swedish: kantat (sv) c
• Turkish: kantat (tr)

See also

• sonata

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cantata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kənˈta.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kanˈta.ta]

Noun

cantata f (plural cantates)

1. (music) cantata

Further reading

• “cantata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cantata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cantata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈta.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: can‧tà‧ta

Etymology 1

Noun

cantata f (plural cantate)

1. song
2. singalong

Descendants

• → Catalan: cantata
• → English: cantata
• → Spanish: cantata

Etymology 2

Participle

cantata f sg

1. feminine singular of cantato

Latin

Participle

cantāta

1. inflection of cantātus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

cantātā

1. ablative feminine singular of cantātus

References

• cantata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtata/

Noun

cantata f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cantată

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cantata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kanˈtata/ [kãn̪ˈt̪a.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: can‧ta‧ta

Noun

cantata f (plural cantatas)

1. (music) cantata

Further reading

• “cantata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10