cigarra
Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicāda.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁɐ/ [siˈɡa.hɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁɐ/ [siˈɡa.χɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁa/ [siˈɡa.ha]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁɐ/ [siˈɣa.ʁɐ]
- Rhymes: -aʁɐ
- Hyphenation: ci‧gar‧ra
Noun
cigarra f (plural cigarras)
- cicada (any of several insects of the order Hemiptera)
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicāda. Doublet of chicharra, which arrived via Mozarabic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θiˈɡara/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ra] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /siˈɡara/ [siˈɣ̞a.ra] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ara
- Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rra
Noun
cigarra f (plural cigarras)
Related terms
References
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 72
Further reading
- “cigarra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024