cantabile

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

cantabile (plural cantabiles)

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

cantabile (comparative more cantabile, superlative most cantabile)

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

cantabile (comparative more cantabile, superlative most cantabile)

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

• anticable

Borrowed from Italian cantabile.

• IPA^(key): /kɑ̃.ta.bil/, /kɑ̃.ta.bi.le/

cantabile m (plural cantabiles)

1. (music) cantabile

cantabile (plural cantabiles)

1. (music) cantabile

• “cantabile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• câblaient

From cantare +‎ -abile.

cantabile m (plural cantabili)

1. cantabile

cantabile (masculine and feminine plural cantabili)

1. cantabile
2. singable

cantabile

1. cantabile

• cantabilità

cantābile

1. nominative neuter singular of cantābilis
2. accusative neuter singular of cantābilis
3. vocative neuter singular of cantābilis