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prettygoodwordgittern - n., a medieval guitar with a pear-shaped sound-box.
From alteration of either Greek kithera directly into French or via Spanish guittara. Gittern, cittern, cither, zither, citole -- all the same thing. A lute, however, is something else.
---L.
From alteration of either Greek kithera directly into French or via Spanish guittara. Gittern, cittern, cither, zither, citole -- all the same thing. A lute, however, is something else.
---L.
