sistrum

• systrum (obsolete)

Borrowed from Latin sīstrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek σεῖστρον (seîstron), from σείω (seíō, “shake”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪstɹəm/, /ˈsɪstɹʊm/
• Rhymes: -ɪstɹəm

sistrum (plural sistrums or sistra)

1. An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     She moved with slow undulations of her body as lascivious as the curve of Hathfertiti’s hair, and the sistrum with its singing wires was played by a dwarf wearing nothing but a gold purse and a few bracelets on his stunted biceps.

• trismus, truisms

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɪstrum]

sistrum n

1. sistrum

• “sistrum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σεῖστρον (seîstron), from σείω (seíō, “shake”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiːs.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsis.t̪rum]

sīstrum n (genitive sīstrī); second declension

1. sistrum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “sistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sistrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sistrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sistrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sistrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin