kithara
noun
kithara is a noun meaning “Alternative form of cithara” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-T-H-A-R-A, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kithara is kitharas or kitharai.
What does kithara mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative form of cithara.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kithara
- kitharas plural
- kitharai plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kithara?
Kithara appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does kithara come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek κιθάρᾱ (kithárā). Doublet of cithara, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).