cithara

• kithara

cithara (plural citharas or citharai)

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

• guitar

• Cathari, Chaitra

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.tʰa.ra/, [ˈkɪ.tʰa.ra]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ta.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃiː.ta.ra]

cithara f (genitive citharae); first declension

1. (music) cithara, lyre, lute, guitar

First-declension noun.

• citharicen
• citharista
• citharizo

Through Vulgar Latin cithera:

Borrowings:

• 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