guitar

• n. ギター、ヘキサコード
• vi.ギターを弾く

ギリシャ語のkitharaが語源。

guitar

guitar: [17] The Greek kithárā was a stringed musical instrument of the lyre family, which has bequeathed its name to a variety of successors. Via Latin cithara came English citole [14], a medieval stringed instrument, and German zither (borrowed by English in the 19th century), while Arabic took it over as qītār and passed it on to Spanish as guitarra.

French adopted it in the form guitare (which eventually superseded the earlier guiterne), and it eventually reached English. (The history of guiterne, incidentally, is not entirely clear, although it is obviously a member of the kithárā family. English acquired it as gittern [14], applied to an early form of guitar, and it seems to have been blended with Latin cithara to produce English cithern or cittern [16], the name of a plucked stringed instrument of Renaissance times.)
=> zither

guitar (n.)

lute-like musical instrument, 1620s, from French guitare, which was altered by Spanish and Proven?al forms from Old French guiterre, earlier guiterne, from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara "cithara," a triangular seven-stringed musical instrument related to the lyre, perhaps from Persian sihtar (see sitar). The name reached English several times, including giterne (early 14c., from Old French), in reference to various stringed, guitar-like instruments; the modern word is also directly from Spanish guitarra (14c.), which ultimately is from the Greek. The Arabic word is perhaps from Spanish or Greek, though often the relationship is said to be the reverse. The modern guitar is one of a large class of instruments used in all countries and ages but particularly popular in Spain and periodically so in France and England. Other 17c, forms of the word in English include guittara, guitarra, gittar, and guitarre. Compare zither, gittern.

1. Molly had cringed when Ann started picking up the guitar .

アンがギターを弾き始めたとき、モリーは少し気まずい思いをした。

2.He spent his adolescent years playing guitar in the church band.

教会のバンドでギターを弾き、青少年時代を過ごした。

3.The song is a fiery mix of twanging guitar with relentless drumming.

それはかき回したギターの音と密集した鼓動を交えた情熱的な曲だ。

4.Bronka is somewhat infamous for his screeching electric guitar work.

ブラウンカードは耳障りなエレキギターの音を弾くので少し嫌になった。

5.She smiled her thanks and arranged the guitar under her arm.

彼女は微笑みながらお礼を言い、腕の下のギターを調整した。