The corpus record — Latin

cantatio

cantatio · f

Music

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

cantātĭo — Lewis & Short

cantātĭo, ōnis, f.canto; lit. a singing, a playing; hence, abstr. pro concr..

I Music, song, mentioned by Varr. L. L. 6, 7, § 75 Müll.: animum cantationibus permulcere, App. M. 2, p. 125; Vulg. Psa. 70, 6 (but in Plaut. Stich. 5, 5, 19, the true reading is cantionem, Fleck.).—*

II A charm, spell, incantation, Firm. Math. 3, 6.

In the wild

cantationibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.25

Where it came from

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

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