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canto


noun, plural can·tos.

  1. one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem.

noun plural -tos

  1. music another word for cantus (def. 2)
  2. a main division of a long poem
n.

1580s, from Italian canto “song,” from Latin cantus “song” (see chant (v.)). As “a section of a long poem,” used in Italian by Dante, in English first by Spenser.

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