sistrum

Borrowed from Latin sīstrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek σεῖστρον (seîstron), from σείω (seíō, “shake”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪstɹəm/

sistrum (plural sistrums or sistra)

1. An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     She moved with slow undulations of her body as lascivious as the curve of Hathfertiti’s hair, and the sistrum with its singing wires was played by a dwarf wearing nothing but a gold purse and a few bracelets on his stunted biceps.

• sistrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• trismus, truisms

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σεῖστρον (seîstron), from σείω (seíō, “shake”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːs.trum/, [ˈsiːs.trũː]

sīstrum n (genitive sīstrī); second declension

1. sistrum

Second declension.

• → English: sistrum
• → French: sistre

• sistrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sistrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sistrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sistrum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sistrum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin