cantio

From canō +‎ -tiō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ti.oː/, [ˈkän̪t̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkan.t͡si.o/, [ˈkänt̪͡s̪io]

cantiō f (genitive cantiōnis); third declension

1. song, singing, playing

   Synonym: carmen

   • LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA INEPTOS CRITICOS. (Concluding statements of Century VI, Prophecies of Nostradamus)
2. incantation, spell

Third-declension noun.

• “cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cantio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cantio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.