cetra

• cetera

Inherited from Latin cithara, citera, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of chitarra, which entered through Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.tra/
• Rhymes: -etra
• Hyphenation: cé‧tra

cetra f (plural cetre)

1. zither
   • 1973, “La casa di Hilde”, in Alice non lo sa, performed by Francesco De Gregori:

     E ci mettemmo seduti ad ascoltare il tramonto / Hilde nel buio suonava la cetra

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. lyre

   Synonym: lira

• -crate, Creta, carte, certa, creta, tacer, trace

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.tra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.t̪ra]

cētra f (genitive cētrae); first declension

1. alternative form of caetra

First-declension noun.

• “cetra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cetra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from Latin caetra. First attested in 1553.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθetɾa/ [ˈθe.t̪ɾa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsetɾa/ [ˈse.t̪ɾa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -etɾa
• Syllabification: ce‧tra

cetra f (plural cetras)

1. (historical) a caetra (a short Spanish shield) [from mid-16th c.]

• “cetra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “cetra”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN