cymbalum

English

Noun

cymbalum (plural cymbalums)

1. Alternative form of cimbalom

French

Alternative forms

• czimbalum

Pronunciation

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Noun

cymbalum m (plural cymbalums)

1. cimbalom

Further reading

• “cymbalum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkym.ba.lum/, [ˈkʏmbäɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃim.ba.lum/, [ˈt͡ʃimbälum]

Noun

cymbalum n (genitive cymbalī); second declension

1. cymbal
2. (poetic) genitive plural of cymbalum
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.21

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cymbalum	cymbala
Genitive	cymbalī	cymbalōrum
Dative	cymbalō	cymbalīs
Accusative	cymbalum	cymbala
Ablative	cymbalō	cymbalīs
Vocative	cymbalum	cymbala

Derived terms

• cymbalicus

Descendants

• → Catalan: címbal
• → Old Irish: cimbal
  • Irish: ciombal
• Italian: cembalo, cimbalo
• Old French: chimbe
  • → French: cymbale
• → Old English: cymbal, cimbal
  • Middle English: chimbe
    • English: chime, → cymbal
• → Norwegian: cymbal
• → Polish: cymbał
• → Portuguese: címbalo
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: цимбало, цимбал
  • Roman: cimbalo, cimbal
• Spanish: címbalo
• → Swedish: cymbal
• → Yiddish: צימבל (tsimbl)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cimbellum
  • Catalan: cimbell

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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