sambucas
sambucas is the plural of sambuca.
Meaning of sambuca
Noun (1)
sambuca (usually uncountable, plural sambucas)
Noun (2)
sambuca (plural sambucae or sambucas)
- An ancient form of triangular harp having a very sharp, shrill tone.
- Cymbals, trumpets and organs (familiar Old Testament vocabulary) appear conventionally enough as cymballe, trwmpedau and organau, but the more obscure psaltria, trigona, and sambucae (psalteries, trigons and sambucae: three types of Greek harp) become psalteris, kornets, shalmes, [a] dulcimus in...2007, Sally Harper, “Part III: Welsh Music in an English Milieu c.1550–1650”, “19. A Welsh Translation of John Case’s Apologia Musices”, in Music in Welsh Culture Before 1650: A Study of the...
- An ancient type of ship-borne siege engine.
- Marcellus had prepared, at great expense, machines called ſambucae, from their reſemblance to a muſical inſtrument of that name.[…]“Shall we perſiſt,” ſaid he to his workmen and engineers, “in making war with this Briareus of a geometrician, who treats my gallies and ſambucae ſo rudely? He...1790, “Book Twenty-First. The History of Syracuse”, “Article II. The Reign of Hieronymus, the Troubles Consequential of It, and the Siege and Taking of Syracuse”, in The Ancient History, 8th edition...
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- What is sambucas the plural of?
- Sambucas is the plural of sambuca.
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