cymbalum

English

cymbalum (plural cymbalums)

cymbalum m (plural cymbalums)

From Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”).

cymbalum n (genitive cymbalī); second declension

cymbal
(poetic) genitive plural of cymbalum
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.21

→ Catalan: címbal
→ Old Irish: cimbal
- Irish: ciombal
Italian: cembalo, cimbalo
Old French: chimbe
- → French: cymbale
→ Old English: cymbal, cimbal
- Middle English: chimbe
  - English: chime, → cymbal
→ Norwegian: cymbal
→ Polish: cymbał
→ Portuguese: címbalo
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: цимбало, цимбал
- Roman: cimbalo, cimbal
Spanish: címbalo
→ Swedish: cymbal
→ Yiddish: צימבל (tsimbl)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cimbellum
- Catalan: cimbell

“cymbalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cymbalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cymbalum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
cymbalum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“cymbalum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“cymbalum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin