cantiga
Portuguese, noun/kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɐ/
cantiga is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “folk song (song handed down by oral tradition)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “canto popular”.
What does cantiga mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefolk song (song handed down by oral tradition)
- 2
femininecantiga (mediaeval monophonic song)
- 3
feminineany song
- 4
colloquialfemininenonsense; story
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. canto popular 2. poesia cantada em qualquer ária 3. história pouco verosímil 4. história contada com o intuito de enganar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cantiga
- cantigas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cantiga?
- Brazil /kɐ̃ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɐ/
- Portugal /kɐ̃ˈti.ɡɐ/
- Portugal [kɐ̃ˈti.ɣɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cantiga
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cantiga in Portuguese?
cantiga appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).