kántor
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cantor (“singer”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkaːntor]
- Hyphenation: kán‧tor
- Rhymes: -or
Noun
kántor (plural kántorok)
- (religion) cantor, chanter (a person who plays the organ in a church, usually sings professionally at church services and funerals, or leads the singing)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | kántor | kántorok |
| accusative | kántort | kántorokat |
| dative | kántornak | kántoroknak |
| instrumental | kántorral | kántorokkal |
| causal-final | kántorért | kántorokért |
| translative | kántorrá | kántorokká |
| terminative | kántorig | kántorokig |
| essive-formal | kántorként | kántorokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | kántorban | kántorokban |
| superessive | kántoron | kántorokon |
| adessive | kántornál | kántoroknál |
| illative | kántorba | kántorokba |
| sublative | kántorra | kántorokra |
| allative | kántorhoz | kántorokhoz |
| elative | kántorból | kántorokból |
| delative | kántorról | kántorokról |
| ablative | kántortól | kántoroktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
kántoré | kántoroké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
kántoréi | kántorokéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | kántorom | kántoraim |
| 2nd person sing. | kántorod | kántoraid |
| 3rd person sing. | kántora | kántorai |
| 1st person plural | kántorunk | kántoraink |
| 2nd person plural | kántorotok | kántoraitok |
| 3rd person plural | kántoruk | kántoraik |
Derived terms
- kántori
- kántorkodik
- kántoros
Compound words
- kántorlakás
- kántorsegéd
- kántortanító
References
- ^ kántor in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
- kántor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.