gittern

git·tern

G0135300 (gĭt′ərn)n. A guitar of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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[Middle English giterne, from Old French guiterne, from Latin cithara; see cithara.]

gittern

(ˈɡɪtɜːn) n (Classical Music) music an obsolete medieval stringed instrument resembling the guitar. Compare cittern[C14: from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Old Spanish guitarra guitar; see cittern]

cit•tern

(ˈsɪt ərn)

n. an old musical instrument related to the guitar, having a flat, pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings. [1550–60; perhaps b. Latin cithara kithara and Middle French guiterne gittern]

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gittern - a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire stringscithern, citole, cittern, citherguitar - a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking