The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκύμβαλον
- Latin · derived fromcymbalum“cymbal”
- Old French · derived fromcimbale
- Old English · inherited fromcimbal
- Middle English · inherited fromcymbal
- English todaycymbal
From Middle English cymbal, from Old English cimbal, cimbala and Old French cimbale, both from Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek κύμβαλον (kúmbalon), from κύμβη (kúmbē, “bowl”). See also chime.
Words from the same roots
Latincymbalum all →
chime
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.