barbitos

English

Alternative forms

• barbiton

Etymology

From Latin barbitos, from Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːbɪtəs/

Noun

barbitos (plural barbitoi)

1. 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

• Finnish: barbitos

Anagrams

• rabbit-os, rabbitos

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάρβιτος (bárbitos, “many-stringed musical instrument”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bi.tos/, [ˈbärbɪt̪ɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bi.tos/, [ˈbärbit̪os]

Noun

barbitos m

1. a lyre, lute

Declension

Only attested in nominative, accusative and vocative singular. The neuter plural barbita is found in Ausonius.

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

	singular
nominative	barbitos
genitive	barbitī
dative	barbitō
accusative	barbiton
ablative	barbitō
vocative	barbite

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