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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κιθαρῳδός (kitharōidós), from κιθάρα (kithára, “lyre”) + ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer”), the latter from ἀείδω (aeídō, “I sing”), whence Latin borrowings auloedus (“flautist's accompanist”) and comoedus (“comic; thespian”).
Noun
citharoedus m (genitive citharoedī); second declension
- singer who accompanies himself on the cithara
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “citharoedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “citharoedus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “citharoedus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “citharoedus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers