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- The earliest known use of the verb cantillate is in the 1860s. OED's earliest evidence for cantillate is from 1864, in the writing of R. Lee. cantillate is a borrowing from Latin.
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The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate).
- Ass. How did a word meaning “donkey” come to mean “butt”? It didn’t: Each ass has its own etymology. Ass the donkey is an Old English term derived from asinus, the Latin word for the animal.
- Bitch. Bitch hails from the animal kingdom, too. The earliest sense of the word—Old English’s biccean, a borrowing from Germanic languages—refers to a female dog.
- Cunt. Today, however, cunt (also likely from Germanic) often takes the cake when it comes to offensive appellations given to women. But it didn’t become an insult until the 1600s; for centuries before that, it mainly just referred to female genitals.
- Damn. Damn, which comes from French and Latin verbs, wasn’t always an expletive. To damn someone circa 1300 often just meant to sentence them for a crime.
Word origin. C19: from Late Latin cantillāre to sing softly, from Latin cantāre to sing. 2 senses: 1. to chant (passages of the Hebrew Scriptures) according to the traditional Jewish melody 2. to intone or chant.... Click for more definitions.
Word History. Etymology. Latin cantilatus, past participle of cantilare to sing, perhaps from cantilena. First Known Use. circa 1828, in the meaning defined above. Time Traveler. The first known use of cantillate was circa 1828. See more words from the same year.
Origin of cantillate 1. C19: from Late Latin cantillāre to sing softly, from Latin cantāre to sing. Discover More. Example Sentences. Does Mr. Arnold Bennett cantillate his "copy" into the horn of a graphophone or use a motor-stylus? From Project Gutenberg. Cantillate definition: to chant; intone.. See examples of CANTILLATE used in a sentence.
can·til·late (k ă n tl- ā t ′) Share: Tweet. tr. & intr.v. can·ti·lat·ed, can·ti·lat·ing, can·ti·lates. To chant or recite (a liturgical text) in a musical monotone. [Latin cantil ā re, cantil ā t-, to sing, from cant ā re, to sing; see kan- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] can ′ til·la tion n.
