cicada

English

Wikipedia

An adult cicada

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

From Latin cicada.

Noun

cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae)

1. any of several insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Homoptera, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.

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) f., жътвар (bg) m. Catalan: cigala (ca) f. Chinese: 蟬, 蝉 Czech: cikáda (cs) f. Dutch: cicade (nl) f. Esperanto: cikado (eo) Finnish: 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)

Korean: 매미 (maemi), 쓰르라미 (sseureurami) Lao: ຈັກຈັ່ນ (lo) (cakcan) Latin: cicada (la) f. 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)

See also

• cricket
• grasshopper
• locust

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Latin

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical) IPA: /kiˈkaː.da/

Noun

cicāda (genitive cicādae); f, first declension

1. cicada
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

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