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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[lyre]] (IA.), also <b class="b3">κίθαρις</b>, <b class="b3">-ιος</b> f. (Il.; on the [Aeolic?] accent Schwyzer 385).<br />Other forms: Ion. <b class="b3">-ρη</b><br />Compounds: Compp., e. g. <b class="b3">κιθαρο-αοιδός</b> (Com.), usually contracted <b class="b3">κιθαρῳδός</b> (IA.) <b class="b2">lyre-singer</b> with <b class="b3">κιθαρῳδέω</b> etc., <b class="b3">ἀ-κίθαρις</b> <b class="b2">withou l.</b> (A.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">κίθαρος</b> m. 1. [[thorax]] (Hp. Loc. Hom.; after the form); 2. name of a flatfish (Com., Arist.; after the form) with <b class="b3">κιθάριον</b> (Ptol. Euerg.); also <b class="b3">κιθαρῳδός</b> name of a fish in the Red Sea (Ael.; after the painting of the colours; Thompson Fishes s. v., Strömberg Fischnamen 38). - Denomin. verb <b class="b3">κιθαρίζω</b> [[play the lyre]], also of string-instruments in gen. and of the accompanying songs (Il.; Schwyzer 736; on the meaning E. Diehl RhM N. F. 89, 96f.) with several derivv.: <b class="b3">κιθαριστύς</b> f. (Il.), <b class="b3">κιθάρισις</b> (Pl.), <b class="b3">-ισμός</b> (Call.) <b class="b2">playing the l., the art of ...</b>; attempt at semantic differentiation in Benveniste Noms d'agent 69, s. also Porzig Satzinhalte 181; <b class="b3">κιθάρισμα</b> <b class="b2">piece of music for the l.</b> (Pl.); <b class="b3">κιθαριστής</b> <b class="b2">l.-player etc.</b> (h. Hom. 25, 3, Hes.) with <b class="b3">-ίστρια</b> (Arist.), also <b class="b3">-ιστρίς</b> (Nic. Dam.), <b class="b3">-ιστικός</b> (Pl.), <b class="b3">-ιστήριος</b> (hell.) <b class="b2">belonging to the playing of ...</b>.<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Pre-Greek. Wrong explanations from IE. and Semit. in Bq.