cantar

American  

[kan-tahr] / kænˈtɑr /

noun

Prosody.

1. a poem consisting of four-line stanzas, each line having eight syllables.

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Etymology

Origin of cantar

< Spanish: song, poem (noun use of v. infinitive) < Latin cantāre to sing

Example Sentences

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cantar

For ten yards of good red cloth, they had one bahar of cloves, containing four cantars or quintals and six pounds; the cantar being 100 pounds.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert

Not infrequently he would try to pour the wine of a cantar into the bottle of a popular air, and if it overflowed and was spilt, so much the worse for the cantar.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

Carobs are sold by the Aleppo cantar of 180 okes.

From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by Bevan, William

The warlike and adventurous spirit of Northern and Central Spain preferred epic to lyric poetry: and the outcome was the cantar de gesta and the romance, the lyrico-narrative or ballad poem.

From The Troubadours by Chaytor, H.J.

Later in Spain it was used as an equivalent for cantar, and finally indicated a lyrico-narrative poem in octosyllabic assonants.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis