cicada

See also Cicada

English

Wikipedia

Wikispecies

An adult cicada

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /sɪˈkeɪdə/ X-SAMPA: /sI"keId@/ or IPA: /sɪˈkɑːdə/ X-SAMPA: /sI"kA:d@/
• Rhymes: -ɑːdə

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicada, ultimately onomatopoeic.

Noun

cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae)

1. 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”, 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.

   1. 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”, 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.

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• hairy cicada

Translations

any of several insects of the order Hemiptera

• Armenian: կնճիթավոր ճպուռ (hy) (knč̣it’avor č̣puṙ), ցիկադա (hy) (c’ikada)

  Old Armenian: ճպուռն (čpuṙn)

• Bulgarian: цикада (bg) (cikada) f, жътвар (bg) (žǎtvar) m
• Catalan: cigala (ca) f
• Chinese: 蟬, 蝉
• Czech: cikáda (cs) f
• Dutch: cicade (nl) f
• Esperanto: cikado (eo)
• Finnish: laulukaskas (fi), kaskas (fi)
• French: cigale (fr) f
• German: Zikade (de) f
• Hungarian: kabóca (hu)
• Italian: cicala (it) f
• Japanese: 蝉 (ja) (semi), セミ (ja) (semi)
• Javanese: tonggèrèt (jv)

• Korean: 매미 (maemi), 쓰르라미 (sseureurami)
• Lao: ຈັກຈັ່ນ (lo) (cakcan)
• Latin: cicada (la) f
• Malagasy: jorery (mg)
• Navajo: wóóneeshchʼįįdii
• Polish: cykada (pl) f
• Portuguese: cigarra (pt) f
• Romanian: cicadă (ro) f, cicoare (ro) f
• Russian: цикада f (cikáda)
• Slovene: škržat (sl) m
• Spanish: chicharra f (Latin America), cigarra f (standard use in Mexico and Spain - Southern Mexico : chicharra), coyuyo m (Northwestern Argentina)
• Tagalog: kuliglig (tl)
• Vietnamese: con ve sầu (vi)
• Volapük: zikad (vo)

See also

• cricket
• grasshopper
• locust

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Latin

Etymology

Probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean language.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA: /kiˈkaː.da/

Noun

cicāda (genitive cicādae); f, first declension

1. cicada, tree-cricket
2. vocative singular of cicāda

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	cicāda	cicādae
genitive	cicādae	cicādārum
dative	cicādae	cicādīs
accusative	cicādam	cicādās
ablative	cicādā	cicādīs
vocative	cicāda	cicādae

Descendants

• English: cicada
• French: cigale
• Italian: cicala
• Occitan: cigala

• Portuguese: cigarra
• Romanian: cicadă, cicoare
• Russian: цика́да (cikáda) f
• Spanish: cigala, cigarra

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈki.kaː.daː/

Noun

cicādā

1. ablative singular of cicāda