cithara

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See also: cíthara

English

Illustration of a woman playing a cithara.

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Etymology

From Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cither, guitar, and zither.

Noun

cithara (plural citharas or citharai or citharae or (archaic) citharæ)

  1. (music) An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar

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Latin

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára), with the common vacillation in the unstressed /er~ar/, as in Caesar- ~ Caeser-, hilaris ~ hilerus, materis ~ mataris.

Pronunciation

Noun

cithara f (genitive citharae); first declension

  1. (music) cithara, cittern, zither, lyre, lute, guitar
  2. (New Latin) guitar (ellipsis of cithara hispānica.)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cithara citharae
Genitive citharae citharārum
Dative citharae citharīs
Accusative citharam citharās
Ablative citharā citharīs
Vocative cithara citharae

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References

  • “cithara”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cithara”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cithara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cithara”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cithara”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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