cítara
Portuguese, noun
cítara is spelled C-Í-T-A-R-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 62,059th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cítara is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “zither (musical instrument)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, citará is a different word: “third-person singular future indicative of citar”. Without its accent, citara is a different word: “first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of citar”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “antigo instrumento de cordas, semelhante à lira, mas maior”.
What does cítara mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininezither (musical instrument)
verb
- 1
third-person singular future indicative of citar
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of citar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. antigo instrumento de cordas, semelhante à lira, mas maior 2. na Idade Média, guitarra de quatro ou seis pares de cordas 3. modernamente, espécie de saltério, com trinta a trinta e nove cordas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cítara
- cítaras plural
- cíthara alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cítara
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cítara in Portuguese?
cítara appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).