cicada

== English == === Alternative forms === cicad === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin cicāda, 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] (Australian) IPA(key): /səˈkɐː.də/, /səˈkæɪ.də/, [səˈkʰɐː.ɾə], [səˈkʰæɪ̯.ɾə] Rhymes: -eɪdə, -ɑːdə === Noun === cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae or (archaic) cicadæ) Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings. The periodical cicada. ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. Probably an onomatopoeic loanword from a lost Mediterranean substrate language. === Pronunciation === cicāda: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪˈkaː.da] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃiˈkaː.da] === Noun === cicāda f (genitive cicādae); first declension cicada, tree-cricket ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== cicādella ==== Descendants ==== Reflexes of the late variant cicāla: Reflexes of an assumed variant *cicār(r)a: === References === Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[3] (in Spanish), volume 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, 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 definite nominative/accusative singular of cicadă