- κιθάρα
- κιθάραGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `lyre' (IA.), also κίθαρις, -ιος f. (Il.; on the [Aeolic?] accent Schwyzer 385).Other forms: Ion. -ρηCompounds: Compp., e. g. κιθαρο-αοιδός (Com.), usually contracted κιθαρῳδός (IA.) `lyre-singer' with κιθαρῳδέω etc., ἀ-κίθαρις `withou l.' (A.).Derivatives: κίθαρος m. 1. `thorax' (Hp. Loc. Hom.; after the form); 2. name of a flatfish (Com., Arist.; after the form) with κιθάριον (Ptol. Euerg.); also κιθαρῳδός name of a fish in the Red Sea (Ael.; after the painting of the colours; Thompson Fishes s. v., Strömberg Fischnamen 38). - Denomin. verb κιθαρίζω `play the lyre', also of string-instruments in gen. and of the accompanying songs (Il.; Schwyzer 736; on the meaning E. Diehl RhM N. F. 89, 96f.) with several derivv.: κιθαριστύς f. (Il.), κιθάρισις (Pl.), -ισμός (Call.) `playing the l., the art of ...'; attempt at semantic differentiation in Benveniste Noms d'agent 69, s. also Porzig Satzinhalte 181; κιθάρισμα `piece of music for the l.' (Pl.); κιθαριστής `l.-player etc.' (h. Hom. 25, 3, Hes.) with -ίστρια (Arist.), also -ιστρίς (Nic. Dam.), -ιστικός (Pl.), -ιστήριος (hell.) `belonging to the playing of ...'.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Pre-Greek. Wrong explanations from IE. and Semit. in Bq.Page in Frisk: 1,850-851
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.