cetra

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Italian

Alternative forms

cetera

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cithara, citera, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of chitarra, which entered through Arabic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.tra/
Rhymes: -etra
Hyphenation: cé‧tra

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Noun

cetra f (plural cetre)

zither
- 1973, “La casa di Hilde”, in Alice non lo sa, performed by Francesco De Gregori:
  E ci mettemmo seduti ad ascoltare il tramonto / Hilde nel buio suonava la cetra
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
lyre
Synonym: lira

Anagrams

-crate, Creta, carte, certa, creta, tacer, trace

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.tra/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.tra/,

Noun

cētra f (genitive cētrae); first declension

Alternative form of caetra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cētra	cētrae
Genitive	cētrae	cētrārum
Dative	cētrae	cētrīs
Accusative	cētram	cētrās
Ablative	cētrā	cētrīs
Vocative	cētra	cētrae

References

“cetra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cetra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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