cithara

[ sith-er-uh ]

noun

1. kithara.

cithara

/ ˈsɪθərə /

noun

1. a stringed musical instrument of ancient Greece and elsewhere, similar to the lyre and played with a plectrum

Other Words From

• citha·rist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cithara¹

C18: from Greek kithara

Example Sentences

In fact, Nero often played a type of lyre called a cithara.

From Scientific American

Diaphanous gold and black chiffon dresses, bound with winding ribbons, pleated and worn with metallic cithara garlands.

From New York Times

He didn’t burn down Rome, though, and if he had been playing a musical instrument at the time, it would have been a cithara, fiddles not having been invented.

From Washington Post

P                       Phaon and Sappho kneel in a grove, a cithara beside them: age-old trees shade the lovers: the age of a ruined temple is part of the timelessness of the grove: bronze Phaon and white Sappho, dusk takes over their whispers, their motions, the wind in the olives.

From Project Gutenberg

P                       Phaon and Sappho kneel in a grove, a cithara beside them: age-old trees shade the lovers: the age of a ruined temple is part of the timelessness of the grove: bronze Phaon and white Sappho, dusk takes over their whispers, their motions, the wind in the olives.

From Project Gutenberg