The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπανδοῦρα“three-stringed lute”
- Latin · derived frompandura
- Spanish · derived frombandurria
- English todaybandore
From Spanish bandurria, from Latin pandura, pandurium, a musical instrument of three strings, from Ancient Greek πανδοῦρα (pandoûra, “three-stringed lute”). Compare pandore, banjo, mandolin, bandura.
Words from the same roots
Spanishbandurria all →
bandurria
Latinpandura all →
pandurate
Ancient Greekπανδοῦρα all →
bandurapandura
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.