The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromcantiō
- English todaycantion
Learned borrowing from Latin cantiō, from canere (“to sing”). Doublet of chanson and canzone. By surface analysis, Latin cant- + -ion.
Words from the same roots
Latincantiō all →
chansoncanzonecanzonetcanzonetta
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.