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6-letter words (1 found)

CICADA,

4-letter words (7 found)

ACAI,ACCA,ACID,AIDA,CACA,CADI,CAID,

3-letter words (5 found)

AIA,AID,CAA,CAD,CID,

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AA,AD,AI,DA,DI,ID,

You can make 19 words from cicada according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cicada

cicada

Alternative forms

  • cicad

Etymology

Wikispecies

Borrowed from Latin cicada, ultimately onomatopoeic. Doublet of cicala.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑː.də/, [sɪˈkʰeɪ̯.də], [sɪˈkʰɑː.də]
  • (US) IPA(key): /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑ.də/, [sɪ̈ˈkʰeɪ̯.ɾə], [sɪ̈ˈkʰɑ.ɾə]
  • Rhymes: -eɪdə, -ɑːdə

Noun

cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae or (archaic) cicadæ)

  1. Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
    1. The periodical cicada.

Synonyms

  • cicala
  • (Appalachia) jarfly

Hyponyms

  • (periodical cicada): seventeen-year locust, decim periodical cicada

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • cricket
  • grasshopper
  • locust

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Probably an onomatopoeic loanword from a lost Mediterranean substrate language. Compare also Sanskrit चिश्चिर (ciścira, “cicada”).

Pronunciation

  • cicāda: (Classical) IPA(key): /kiˈkaː.da/, [kɪˈkäːd̪ä]
  • cicāda: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.da/, [t͡ʃiˈkäːd̪ä]

Noun

cicāda f (genitive cicādae); first declension

  1. cicada, tree-cricket

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • → English: cicada
  • → Galician: cicada
  • → Macedonian: цикада (cikada)
  • → Polish: cykada
  • → Romanian: cicadă
  • → Russian: цика́да f (cikáda)
  • → German: Zikade

Reflexes of the late variant cicāla:

  • Balkan Romance:
    • ⇒ Romanian: cicoare
    • → Albanian: qingallë ⇒ gjinkallë
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: cicala
    • Italian: cicala
      • → English: cicala
    • Sicilian: cicheda
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: ciale
    • Piedmontese: siala
    • Romagnol: zghêla
    • Venetian: çigala, sigala, sigała
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: cigala
    • Old Occitan: cigala
      • Occitan: cigala
      • → French: cigale
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: zicala
    • Mozarabic: [script needed] (čiqâla)
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: chicula

Reflexes of an assumed variant *cicār(r)a:

  • Mozarabic: [Term?]
    • → Galician: chicharra
    • → Portuguese: chicharra
    • → Spanish: chicharra
  • Portuguese: cigarra
  • Spanish: cigarra

References

  • Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 72

Further reading

  • “cicada”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cicada”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cicada in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cicada in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cicada”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Noun

cicada

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cicadă

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