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
The fidicula therefore was the cithara, either in its original classical form or in one of the transitions which transformed it into the guitar.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Like the lyre the cithara was made in many sizes, conditioned by the pitch and the use to which the instrument was to be put.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
For the descent of the guitar-fiddle, the first bowed ancestor of the violin, through many transitions from the cithara, see Cithara, Guitar and Guitar-Fiddle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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