cymbalum

Noun

cymbalum (plural cymbalums)

1. Alternative form of cimbalom

Alternative forms

• czimbalum

Noun

cymbalum m (plural cymbalums)

1. cimbalom

Further reading

• “cymbalum” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”).

Noun

cymbalum n (genitive cymbalī); second declension

1. cymbal
2. (poetic, syncopated) genitive plural of cymbalum

   c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.21

References

• cymbalum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cymbalum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cymbalum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cymbalum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cymbalum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cymbalum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin