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Definition of Cithara
1. n. An ancient instrument resembling the harp.
Definition of Cithara
1. Noun. (musici) An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cithara
1. an ancient stringed instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cithara
Literary usage of Cithara
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"These nomes of Terpander were arranged for sinking and playing upon the cithara.
It cannot, indeed, be doubted that Terpander made use of the flute, ..."
2. Geschichte der Musik by August Wilhelm Ambros, Gustav Nottebohm, B. von Sokolowsky, Carl Ferdinand Becker, Heinrich Reimann, Otto Kade (1887)
"Hieronymus: der Unterschied zwischen Psalter und cithara bestehe darin, dass das
Psalter oben, die cithara unten geschlagen werde.4) Dass der Resonanzkörper ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"... the world to whom they were directed, whose unspeakable and never enough
lamented loss hath taught me to say with Job, Versa est in luctum cithara mea, ..."
4. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"The difference between the Difference ancient lyre and the cithara has been a
... The sound-box of the cithara was made of thin plates of wood, metal, ..."
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