The Italian word for guitar, referring to the stringed musical instrument.
From Italian chitarra, derived from Latin cithara, which came from Greek kithara. The Greek instrument was plucked and eventually evolved into the modern guitar through Iberian and European development.
The word 'guitar' traveled from Ancient Greece through Rome and Arabic (qitara) into Spanish (guitarra) and Italian (chitarra)—following the exact same historical path that the instrument itself took across continents!
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