Words that come from Latin “cithara”

94 words across 40 languages descend from Latin cithara — including guitar, cither, guitarist, zither, cithara, guitarlike, citole, guitarfish.

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English (18)

German (11)

Hungarian (6)

Spanish (5)

Italian (3)

Dutch (3)

French (3)

Irish (3)

Arabic (2)

Japanese (2)

Swedish (2)

Tagalog (2)

Chinese (2)

Cebuano (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Romanian (2)

Portuguese (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Sicilian (1)

Macedonian (1)

Russian (1)

Polish (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Central Franconian (1)

Korean (1)

Middle French (1)

Latin (1)

Yup'ik (1)

Burmese (1)

Danish (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Bengali (1)

Manx (1)

Turkish (1)

Thai (1)

Vietnamese (1)

Old High German (1)

Late Latin (1)

Old Dutch (1)