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==Etymology and equivalent terms== The word ''canto'' is derived from the [[Italian language|Italian]] word for "song" or "singing", which comes from the Latin ''cantus'', "song", from the infinitive verb ''canere'', "to sing".<ref name=EB1911/><ref name="MWdictDefn">[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canto "Canto"], ''The Merriam-Webster Dictionary''. Retrieved 27 September 2015.</ref> In [[Old Saxon poetry]], [[Old English poetry]], and [[Middle English]] poetry, the term ''[[Fitt_(poetry)|fitt]]'' was sometimes used to denote a section of a long narrative poem, and that term is sometimes used in modern scholarship of this material instead of ''canto''.<ref>'[https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70743 fit | fytte, n.1.]', ''Oxford English Dictionary Online'', 1st ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1896).</ref><ref>R. D. Fulk, "The Origin of the Numbered Sections in ''Beowulf'' and in Other Old English Poems", ''Anglo-Saxon England'', 35 (2006), 91β109 (p. 91 fn. 1). {{JSTOR|44510947}}.</ref>
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