Etymograph

English

cicada

Cicada comes from Latin cicāda ‘cicada, tree-cricket’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcicāda‘cicada, tree-cricket’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2011cicada

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcicāda‘cicada, tree-cricket’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2011cicada

Earliest quotation: 2011, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living: “The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have…”

Linked words

through Latin cicāda ‘cicada, tree-cricket’

cigarette, cigar, puro, 2 more

Today it means

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

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Etymograph / Latin cicāda / cicada

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