English
cigar
Cigar comes from Spanish cigarro.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentcigarro
- Englishearliest quotation 1907cigar
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentcigarro
- Englishearliest quotation 1907cigar
Earliest quotation: 1907, Robert William Chambers, New York: “Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with…”
Linked words
through Latin cicāda ‘cicada, tree-cricket’
through Spanish cigarro
Today it means
noun A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish cigarro / cigar