cithara

• kithara

From Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cither, guitar, kithara, kissar, and zither.

cithara (plural citharas or citharai or citharae or (archaic) citharæ)

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

• citharist
• citharoedic
• citole

• Cathari, Chaitra, cathair, chirata

• citera, chitera, chitarus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára), with the common vacillation in the unstressed /er~ar/, as in Caesar- ~ Caeser-, hilaris ~ hilerus, materis ~ mataris.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɪ.tʰa.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.t̪a.ra]

cithara f (genitive citharae); first declension

1. (music) cithara, cittern, zither, lyre, lute, guitar
2. (New Latin) ellipsis of cithara hispānica (“guitar”)

First-declension noun.

• citharicen
• citharista
• citharizō

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