cantion
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin cantiō, from canere (“to sing”). Doublet of chanson and canzone.
Noun
cantion (plural cantions)
- (obsolete, rare) A song, poem or incantation.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
- the same person was brought in singing a Cantion of Colin's making
References
- “cantion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.