Where the Romanian word “chitară” comes from
From Italian.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -e):
Din it. chitarra.
→ Italian · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -i):
Din it. chitarra.
→ Italian · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- Italian (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Italian chitarra ← Arabic قِيثَارَة ← Latin cithara ← Ancient Greek κιθάρα
- In film dialogue
- 15 times per million words · number 3,088 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 58 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 0.0 3.6 6.2 6.3 3.7
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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