The corpus record — Latin

cantio

cantio · f

A song

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Where it lives

Stichus 3 · 4.83/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

cantĭo — Lewis & Short

cantĭo, ōnis, f.cano, lit. a singing, playing; hence meton. abstr. pro concr..

I A song (rare; mostly ante-class.), Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 25; 5, 5, 19; 5, 6, 8; Suet. Ner. 25; of birds, App. Flor. 2, p. 349, 11; Fronto ad Ver. 1 (cf. cantatio).—

II An incantation, charm, spell, Cato, R. R. 160: subito totam causam oblitus est, idque veneficiis et cantionibus Titiniae factum dicebat, Cic. Brut. 60, 217; App. M. 1, 10, p. 106, 27.

In the wild

cantio Plautus, Bacchides 1.1
cantionum Suetonius, Nero 25.1
cantionibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.4.2
cántionem Plautus, Stichus 5.6
cantionem Apuleius, Florida 12
cantionibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.1.15

6 of 13 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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