Where does “guitare” come from?
guitare (French) comes from Romanian guița, from Romanian -ă, from Latin illa, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
guitare (French): guitar
Ancestry of “guitare”, step by step
guitare traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian guița
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Romanian | guița | to squeal |
| 2 | Romanian | -ă | Forms certain female equivalent nouns |
| 3 | Latin | illa | nominative feminine singular of ille; nominative... |
| 4 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 5 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Spanish guitarra
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Spanish | guitarra | guitar |
| 2 | Old Spanish | guitarra | classical guitar |
| 3 | Arabic | قِيثَارَة | — |
| 4 | Latin | cithara | cithara, lyre, lute, guitar; guitar |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | κιθάρα | lyre; the ribs of the horse; ivy |
Words derived from “guitare”