Translation
guitar
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Word origin
From Spanish guitarra, taken through Arabic qitara from Greek kithara, a lyre-like instrument. English guitar arrived by the same Spanish route, and zither is the Greek word borrowed a second time through German.
- Origin
- Spanish
- Root
- kithara
- English cognates
- guitar, zither
Examples
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He plays the guitar every evening.
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The sound of the guitar filled the room.
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We sang and played guitar until morning.
You , play the guitar, exactly as in English; a player is a o. The stress falls on the second-to-last syllable, as it always does, so it is gi-TA-ro. Esperanto singalongs at a run on guitars, which is why the word climbs so high in a corpus of movement writing.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 17, lesson 11: gitaro, ekspedicio, paciento and 7 more words.