different between guitar vs cithara

English

Alternative forms

• guittar (obsolete)
• gittar (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic ?????????? (q???ra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t??/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /???.t??/
• IPA^(key): /?i?t??/
• IPA^(key): /???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

  Hyphenation: gui?tar

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

2. (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Synonyms

• axe (slang)
• gat (New Zealand slang)

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lute
• stringed instrument

Hyponyms

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

• 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

1. (rare) To play the guitar.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• Ugarit

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?itar/, [???it????]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

Inflection

English

Alternative forms

• kithara

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Related terms

• citharist
• citharoedic
• citole

Anagrams

• Cathari, Chaitra, cathair, chirata

Latin

Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• citera, chitera, chitarus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ki.t?a.ra/, [?k?t??ä?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??i.ta.ra/, [?t??i?t????]

Noun

cithara f (genitive citharae); first declension

1. (music) cithara, lyre, lute, guitar
2. (New Latin) guitar (ellipsis of cithara hisp?nica)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• citharicen
• citharista
• cithariz?

Descendants

Borrowings:

References

• 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