The Mandolin: Its Structure and Performance ( Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries )
(...From at least the middle of the 15th century as mallpear-shaped, round-backed instrument (which would develop in to the mandolin in the 16th century) was called chitarra and chitarino(Italy), guittara
(Spain), quitare,quinterne,and guisterne (France), gyterne (England), and Quintern (Germany). By the16th century most of these terms were applied to the small, four-courseguitar,and it became customary to refer to the early mandolin type as the mandola(Italy) ormandore...
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