cymbalum
English
Noun
cymbalum (plural cymbalums)
- Alternative form of cimbalom.
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
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Noun
cymbalum m (plural cymbalums)
Further reading
- “cymbalum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkym.ba.ɫũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃim.ba.lum]
Noun
cymbalum n (genitive cymbalī); second declension
- cymbal
- (poetic) genitive plural of cymbalum
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cymbalum | cymbala |
| genitive | cymbalī | cymbalōrum |
| dative | cymbalō | cymbalīs |
| accusative | cymbalum | cymbala |
| ablative | cymbalō | cymbalīs |
| vocative | cymbalum | cymbala |
Derived terms
- cymbalicus
Descendants
- → Catalan: címbal
- → Old Irish: cimbal
- Irish: ciombal
- Italian: cembalo, cimbalo
- Old French: chimbe
- → French: cymbale
- → Old English: cymbal, cimbal
- → Norwegian: cymbal
- → Polish: cymbał
- → Portuguese: címbalo
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: címbalo
- → Swedish: cymbal
- → Yiddish: צימבל (tsimbl)
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cimbellum
- Catalan: cimbell
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