cantiga

English

Etymology

From Portuguese cantiga, from Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

Noun

cantiga (plural cantigas)

1. A medieval monophonic song, sometimes religious, characteristic of the Galician-Portuguese lyric.
   • 2007 October 1, Allan Kozinn, “Juilliard’s New Semester Starts With New Music”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The most immediately engaging work here was Roberto Sierra’s “Güell Concert” (2006). Mr. Sierra uses a medieval Spanish cantiga as the work’s motto, but leaps quickly into modern rhythmic and harmonic complexities.

Anagrams

• agnatic

Galician

Alternative forms

• cántega, cántiga

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga, either from cantar or from a Celtic substrate form *cantǐcā or *cantīcā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑnˈtiɣɐ]

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. Alternative form of cántiga

References

• “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cantiga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cantiga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cantiga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cantiga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kã.ˈti.ɡa/

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. song (musical composition with lyrics)

Descendants

• Galician: cántiga, cántega, cantiga
• Portuguese: cantiga
  • → English: cantiga

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantiga.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ̃ˈti.ɡɐ/ [kɐ̃ˈti.ɣɐ]

• Hyphenation: can‧ti‧ga

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
2. cantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
3. (by extension) any song
4. (figurative, colloquial) nonsense; story

   Synonyms: léria, mentira

Related terms

• canção
• cantado
• cantante
• cantar
• cântico
• cantor

Spanish

Noun

cantiga f (plural cantigas)

1. cantiga

Further reading

• “cantiga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014