cicala
Aragonese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Early Medieval Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcicala f (plural cicalas)
Further reading
editEnglish
editEtymology
editFrom Italian cicala and Occitan cicala. Doublet of cicada.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcicala (plural cicalas)
- A cicada.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.106:
- The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 227-228:
- She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.
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editItalian
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editEtymology 1
editInherited from Early Medieval Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda.
Noun
editcicala f (plural cicale)
- cicada
- (vulgar, regional) cunt, pussy
- (nautical) the ring at the top of an anchor to which the chain is attached
Derived terms
editEtymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editcicala
- inflection of cicalare:
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editAlteration of the Classical cicāda. Attested in a ninth-century manuscript containing the Hermeneumata Montepessulana. [1]
Noun
editcicāla f (genitive cicālae); first declension
- Alternative form of cicāda (“cricket”)
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cicāla | cicālae |
Genitive | cicālae | cicālārum |
Dative | cicālae | cicālīs |
Accusative | cicālam | cicālās |
Ablative | cicālā | cicālīs |
Vocative | cicāla | cicālae |
Descendants
edit- see: cicāda
References
edit- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 73
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