gittern

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɪtən/    美 /ˈɡɪtəɹn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.
    — Now they can no more hear thy ghittern’s tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.
动词 v.
  1. To play on the gittern.
    — c. 1639-1640. John Milton, The Cambridge Manuscript; Excerpts from pages 35-41, as Reprinted in David Masson, editor & author, The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time; Volume II, London and New York.: MacMillan and Co, 1871, page 109. … [E]ach evening every one with mistress, or Ganymede, glitterning along the streets, or solacing on the banks of Jordan, or down the stream.

词形变化

gitterns plural ghittern alternative gitterns present,singular,third-person gitterning participle,present gitterned participle,past gitterned past

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English giterne, from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English giterne, from Old French guiterne, ultimately from Latin cithara. Doublet of cittern.
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