cicada
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin cicada, ultimately onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪdə, -ɑːdə
Noun
cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae)
- 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[1], 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.
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- 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.
Hyponyms
- (periodical cicada): seventeen-year locust, decim periodical cicada
Derived terms
Translations
any of several insects of the order Hemiptera
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See also
Latin
Etymology
Probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean language.
Pronunciation
- cicāda: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kiˈkaː.da/, [kɪˈkäːd̪ä]
- cicāda: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.da/, [t͡ʃiˈkäːd̪ä]
- cicādā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kiˈkaː.daː/, [kɪˈkäːd̪äː]
- cicādā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.da/, [t͡ʃiˈkäːd̪ä]
Noun
cicāda f (genitive cicādae); first declension
- cicada, tree-cricket
- vocative singular of cicāda
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cicāda | cicādae |
Genitive | cicādae | cicādārum |
Dative | cicādae | cicādīs |
Accusative | cicādam | cicādās |
Ablative | cicādā | cicādīs |
Vocative | cicāda | cicādae |
Descendants
Noun
(deprecated template usage) cicādā
References
- “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
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