# cicada
## English

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### Alternative forms

* cicad

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑː.də/, [sɪˈkʰeɪ̯.də], [sɪˈkʰɑː.də]
* (US) IPA: /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑ.də/, [sɪ̈ˈkʰeɪ̯.ɾə], [sɪ̈ˈkʰɑ.ɾə]
* Audio (US):(file)
* 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.
** 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, page 172:Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
** The periodical cicada.
*** 2011, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living‎, page 217:The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have now been recorded for a long time, and the oldest record of a swarm is that of the appearance of the “locusts” in New England two hundred and ninety-five years ago.
*** 2013 May 16, Laura Kroon, “Magicidada coming to New Jersey on May 27”, in Hunterdon County Democrat:Last year, the Brood I cicadas were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

#### Synonyms

* cicala
* jarfly (Appalachia)

#### Hyponyms

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

#### Derived terms

* bladder cicada
* cicadabird
* cicada case
* cicada-geddon
* cicada hawk
* cicada killer
* dog-day cicada
* evening cicada
* hairy cicada
* periodical cicada
* resh cicada

#### 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”).
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “A cursory search for चिश्चिर (ciścira) returns a result at https://www.learnsanskrit.cc. However, print dictionaries + etymological dictionaries don't seem to mention the Sanskrit word. Is there other corroboration for its existence?”

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

cicāda f (genitive cicādae); first declension
* cicada, tree-cricket

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → English: cicada
* → Galician: cicada
* → German: Zikade
* → Macedonian: цикада (cikada)
* → Polish: cykada
* → Romanian: cicadă
* → Russian: цика́да f (cikáda)
Reflexes of the late variant cicāla:
* Balkan Romance:
** ⇒ Romanian: cicoare
** → Albanian: qingallë ⇒ gjinkallë
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: cicala
** Italian: cicala
*** → English: cicala
* North Italian:
** Friulian: ciale
** Piedmontese: siala
** Romagnol: zghêla
** Venetan: 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[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 72
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 112

### 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
* definite nominative/accusative singular of cicadă