Cantabile Definition

kän-täbĭ-lā

adjective

In an easy, flowing manner; like a song.

Webster's New World

(music) Describing a passage having this mark; singable, lyrical.

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Synonyms:

noun

A cantabile movement or passage.

Webster's New World

(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner.

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adverb

(music) Played in this style; singingly, lyrically.

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Other Word Forms of Cantabile

Singular:

cantabile

Plural:

cantabiles

From Italian cantabile (“singable", "capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”).

From Wiktionary
Italian from Late Latin cantābilis worthy to be sung from Latin cantāre to sing kan- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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