Pronounced: DAY-vee, noun
Notes: A word I didn’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word precentor is “a leader of the singing of a choir or congregation”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
I had no idea that our word existed. I’ve always heard such a person called “the song leader”; sometimes, “the music director”; fancy churches may call the position “the worship leader”. I like precentor – our word came from the Latin verb praecinere (to lead in singing), which is made up of prae- and canere (to sing).
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