French

Alternative forms

• czimbalum

Noun

cymbalum m ‎(plural cymbalums)

1. cimbalom

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

cymbalum n ‎(genitive cymbalī); second declension

1. cymbal
2. (poetic, syncopated) genitive plural of cymbalum

   c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.21

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cymbalum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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