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English
Noun
cymbalum (plural cymbalums)
- Alternative form of cimbalom
French
Pronunciation
Noun
cymbalum m (plural cymbalums)
- cimbalom
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cymbalum n (genitive cymbalī); second declension
- cymbal
- (poetic) genitive plural of cymbalum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “cymbalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cymbalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cymbalum 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)
- cymbalum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cymbalum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cymbalum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin