cithara
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cithara
C18: from Greek kithara
Example Sentences
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In fact, Nero often played a type of lyre called a cithara.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2023
Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2017
Hermes was a patron of music, like Apollo, and invented the cithara; he presided over the games, with Apollo and Heracles, and his statues were common in the stadia and gymnasia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
This rotta must be reckoned among the early ancestors of the violin before the advent of the bow; it was known both as rotta and cithara, and with a neck added it became the guitar-fiddle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
The first stringed instrument to which this new device was applied was the clavicytherium, or keyed cithara.
From How the Piano Came to Be by Ellye Howell Glover
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