cetra

Italian

Alternative forms

• cetera

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cithara, citera, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of chitarra, which entered through Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.tra/
• Rhymes: -etra
• Hyphenation: cé‧tra

Noun

cetra f (plural cetre)

1. zither
   • 1973, “La casa di Hilde”, in Alice non lo sa, performed by Francesco De Gregori:

     E ci mettemmo seduti ad ascoltare il tramonto / Hilde nel buio suonava la cetra

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. lyre

   Synonym: lira

Anagrams

• -crate, Creta, carte, certa, creta, tacer, trace

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.tra/, [ˈkeːt̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.tra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːt̪rä]

Noun

cētra f (genitive cētrae); first declension

1. Alternative form of caetra

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cētra	cētrae
Genitive	cētrae	cētrārum
Dative	cētrae	cētrīs
Accusative	cētram	cētrās
Ablative	cētrā	cētrīs
Vocative	cētra	cētrae

References

• “cetra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cetra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers