cítola

Borrowed from Spanish cítola, from Latin cithara. Doublet of guitarra, cítara, and cistre.

cítola f (plural cítolas)

1. (historical) citole (medieval stringed instrument)
2. synonym of taramela

• “cítola”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cítola”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish çitola (c. 1250), a semi-learned borrowing from Latin cithara. Compare with French citole. Doublet of cítara, guitarra, and cedra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθitola/ [ˈθi.t̪o.la] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsitola/ [ˈsi.t̪o.la] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -itola
• Syllabification: cí‧to‧la

cítola f (plural cítolas)

1. (historical, music) citole

• → Portuguese: cítola

• “cítola”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “cítola”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN