What english derivations are from the latin words “canunt” and “carmen”?
“Canunt” is the third-person plural of the verb “cano, canere,” meaning to sing. We get such words as “incantation” from it. There’s also the musical term “descant,” which has several related meanings usually involving a high part in a melody. Then as Latin broke down into the Romance languages, French often inserted an H after an initial C, so that by way of French we also get “chant” and “enchant” from “cano.” The same phenomenon appears in “charm,” which came into English by way of French from “carmen.
