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Is the word guitar French Latin or Greek?

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Guitar originated as a Greek word: κιθάρα

It also made its way to

French: guitare

Spanish: guitarra (the word we used to get guitar)

Italian: chitarra

It also had a separate journey through the Latin form:

cithara

Italian: cetra

Old High German: cithara

Modern German: Zither

French: cithare

English: cither

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