cistre
French, noun/sistʁ/
cistre is spelled C-I-S-T-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cistre is a French masculine noun meaning “cittern” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Instrument de musique à cordes en usage aux XVIᵉ et XVIIᵉ siècles”.
What does cistre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecittern
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Instrument de musique à cordes en usage aux XVIᵉ et XVIIᵉ siècles.
noun: 1. Meum athamanticum ^([1]), le fenouil des Alpes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cistre
- cistres plural
- cystre
- cithre
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cistre?
- /sistʁ/
- \sistʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cistre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cistre in French?
cistre appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).