The corpus record — Latin

cănor

cănor · m

tune

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What it meant

cănor — Lewis & Short

cănor, ōris, m.cano,

I tune, sound, song, melody (poet. or in post-Aug. prose; rare).

I Lit.

A Of living beings, Quint. 1, 10, 22: cygni, Lucr. 4, 182; 4, 911: res est blanda canor; discant cantare puellae, Ov. A. A. 3, 315: mulcendas natus ad aures, id. M. 5, 561.—

B Of instruments, the tone: Martius aeris rauci canor, martial clang, Verg. G. 4, 71: lyrae, Ov. H. 16, 180.—

II Trop.: bella truci memorata canore, in heroic poetry, Petr. 5, 19.

Where it came from

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