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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κινύρᾱ (kinúrā).
Pronunciation
Noun
cinyra f (genitive cinyrae); first declension
- (music) lyre (with ten strings)
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “cinyra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cinyra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cinyra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.