concentus

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛntəs/

concentus (uncountable)

1. (music) A style of church music that emphasizes harmony.

   Coordinate term: accentus

From concinō (“sing together, harmonize”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔŋˈkɛn.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kon̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛn̪.t̪us]

concentus m (genitive concentūs); fourth declension

1. singing, a blending of voices in harmony
2. (metonymic) a choir
3. (theater) a concordant acclamation of the people
4. concord, agreement, unanimity

Fourth-declension noun.

• (singing): concentiō

• concentiō
• concentor
• concinō

• Italian: concento
• Spanish: concento

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