cantador

From cantar +‎ -dor.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kən.təˈðo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kan.taˈðoɾ]
• Rhymes: -o

cantador m (plural cantadors, feminine cantadora)

1. singer (a person who sings)

   Synonym: cantaire

   Hyponym: cantor

2. singer (a person who likes to sing)

• cantar

From Latin cantātor, cantātōrem.

cantador m (plural cantadors, feminine cantadora, feminine plural cantadoras)

1. singer

From Latin cantātōrem, singular accusative of cantātor (“musician, singer”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese cantador.

• IPA^(key): /kantaˈdoɾ/

cantador m (plural cantadores)

1. singer
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v:

     dixo heliſe_s viuo es el ſennor delos fõſados delant q̃en ẏo eſto q̃ ſi ñ fueſſe por berguẽça de ioſapha nó cataria ati nj not ueria. agora adozid me .j. cantador epues q̃nt adios cantare ſera ſobrel ppħiſmo del criador.

     [Then] Elisha said, “The Lord of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, [for] were it not out of regard for Jehoshaphat, I would not look at you nor see you. [But] now bring me a singer.” And so when to God he sings the prophecy of the Creator will be upon him.

• cantar

• Spanish: cantador

From Old Galician-Portuguese cantador, from Latin cantātōrem. Compare Italian cantatore. By surface analysis, cantar +‎ -dor.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: can‧ta‧dor

cantador (feminine cantadora, masculine plural cantadores, feminine plural cantadoras)

1. singing

cantador m (plural cantadores, feminine cantadeira, feminine plural cantadeiras)

1. troubadour

   Synonym: trovador

• “cantador”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Inherited from Old Spanish cantador, from Latin cantātōrem, agent noun based on cantāre.

• IPA^(key): /kantaˈdoɾ/ [kãn̪.t̪aˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: can‧ta‧dor

cantador (feminine cantadora, masculine plural cantadores, feminine plural cantadoras)

1. singing

   Synonym: cantante

• “cantador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28