barbitos
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin barbitos, from Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɑːbɪtəs/
Noun
barbitos (plural barbitoi)
- An ancient stringed musical instrument from Greece, apparently a type of lute or lyre.
- 1974, Davenport, Tatlin!:
- The singer prepares his tone and rhythm on the barbitos before he adds his voice to the melody.
Translations
ancient musical instrument
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos, “many-stringed musical instrument”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.bi.tos/, [ˈbärbɪt̪ɔs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.bi.tos/, [ˈbärbit̪os]
Declension
Only attested in nominative, accusative and vocative singular. The neuter plural barbita is found in Ausonius.
Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.
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References
- “barbitos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “barbitos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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