cittern

(sit′ərn)

noun

a stringed instrument of the guitar family, pear-shaped with a flat back, popular from the 15th to the 18th cent.

Origin: < cither, prob. infl. by ME giterne: see gittern

See cittern in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A 16th-century guitar with a flat, pear-shaped body.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps blend of Latin cithara, cithara; see cithara

Origin: , and obsolete English gittern (from Middle English, from Old French guiterne, from Latin cithara)

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