The corpus record — Latin

cantamen

cantamen · n

a spell

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Where it lives

Apologia 5 · 2.33/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

cantāmen — Lewis & Short

cantāmen, ĭnis, n.canto, III.; cf. cano, II.; cantus, II. B., and carmen; lit. a charming with words; hence, abstr. pro concr.,

I a spell, charm, magic sentence, incantation (very rare), Prop. 4 (5), 4, 51; App. M. 2, p. 114; id. Mag. 40, p. 299: magicum, Prud. adv. Sym. 2, 176.

In the wild

cantaminibus Apuleius, Apologia 43
cantaminum Apuleius, Apologia 26
cantaminibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.22
cantamen Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 13.23
cantaminibus Apuleius, Apologia 84
cantamine Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.176

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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