cithara

[ sith-er-uh ]

/ ˈsɪθ ər ə /

kithara.

OTHER WORDS FROM cithara

cith·a·rist, noun

citation, citation form, cite, cites, cithaeron, cithara, cither, citied, citified, citify, citizen

To the cithara players and the singers he had ordered beforehand liberal pay.

Quo Vadis |Henryk Sienkiewicz
And music played the tympanum and the pipe, the cithara and the harp.

Famous Modern Ghost Stories |Various
Hipparete blushed, and with a quick and nervous motion touched her cithara.

Philothea |Lydia Maria Child
There was anciently a contest held at Delphi, of players on the cithara, who executed a pæan in honour of the god.

The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3) |Strabo

In another passage (c. 6) Plutarch says of the ancient music of the cithara that it was characterised by perfect simplicity.

The Modes of Ancient Greek Music |David Binning Monro

cithara

/ (ˈsɪθərə) /

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

C18: from Greek kithara