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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “a boat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cymba f (genitive cymbae); first declension
- A boat, skiff, Pliny ascribes its invention to the Phoenicians; especially the small boat used by Charon to ferry the dead.
- A theme.
- non est ingenii cymba gravanda tui ― meddle not with themes above your powers
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “cymba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cymba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cymba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cymba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cymba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin