SING Copy link • SINGcanere: cantare (especially according to rules of art): cantitare (to sing often). To sing a song, carmen canere, cantare: to sing well or in tune, praeclare, modulate canere: to sing badly or out of tune, absurde canere: to sing to an instrument, ad chordarum sonum cantare: (of poets) canere, cantare; also, versus scribere, canere; carmina facere: to learn to sing, cantare discere: to learn to sing of a master, *cantare or cantum doceri a aliquo: a good voice for singing, vox ad cantandum egregia: singing-bird, avis canora: to sing at sight, ab oculo canere (after Petronius, 75, 4): to sing often, cantitare: to sing again, recanere (Cic.); recinere (Hor.); recantare (Mart.): to sing well, canere suaviter et modulate: to sing in parts, or in concert, concinere; concentum facere (Cic.): to sing without accompaniment, assa voce canere (Varr.): to sing with an accompaniment, vocem sociare nervis (Ov.): Transitively, To celebrate in song, aliquem carmine celebrare: alicujus laudes or de alicujus laudibus canere; alicujus facta canere (of praising his achievements); anybody’s name in one’s writings, nomen alicujus celebrare scriptis; memoriam alicujus scriptis prosequi (the latter if the person is dead).