Meanings
nouncantatrice (plural cantatrices or cantatrici)
plural cantatrices · plural cantatrici
- A professional female singer.
An hour later we left the Colosseum, but not till we had heard that soaring voice again, vibrating in our very hearts, and saw the young cantatrice appear with a knot of Russian violets pinned upon the bosom which rose and fell in an ecstasy of song.
1899, Richard Savage, “Love's Legacy”, in Our Mysterious Passenger: And Other Stories, page 195
Origin
- Italiancantatrice
- Englishcantatrice
From French or Italian cantatrice.
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Rhymes with cantatrice
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APA
cantatrice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cantatrice
MLA
“cantatrice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cantatrice. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cantatrice,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cantatrice.
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