Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

canzon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: can-zon
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Truſt me Swayne (quoth Rosader) but my Canzon was written in no ſuch humour: […]"
"Cannot the body weepe without the eies? / Yes and frame deepeſt canzons of lament, / Cannot the body feare, without it lies / Vpon the outward ſhew of diſcontent: […]"
"And that French Muſes eagle eye and wing / Hath ſoar’d to heav’n, and there hath learn’d the art / To frame Angelick ſtrains, and canzons ſing / Too high and deep for every ſhallow heart."
"NIcholas Breton, a writer of Paſtoral Sonnets, Canzons, and Madrigals, in which kind of writing he keeps company with ſeveral other contemporary Emulators of Spencer and Sir Philip Sidney, in a publiſh’d Collection of ſeveral Odes of the chief Sonneters of that Age."

Etymology

From Italian canzone, from Latin cantiō, cantiōnem. Doublet of cantion, canzone, and chanson.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: canzone, cantiō

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

canzons (plural)

Questions

What does canzon mean?: A song.
Where does canzon come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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