Canticle

Canticle: A canticle is a little song or verse. Canticle shares its etymology with accent, chant and another Dante word: canto. Decant and cantilever share a independent, but also Latinate, etymology.

The Araf? Hamistagan? The place to which Dante devoted the canticle immediately following his legendary Inferno?

A Word for Today: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown