cicada

See also: Cicada and cicadă

English

WOTD – 12 August 2015

Etymology

Wikispecies

An adult cicada

Borrowed from Latin cicada, ultimately onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑː.də/, [sɪˈkʰeɪ̯.də], [sɪˈkʰɑː.də]
• IPA^(key): /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑ.də/, [sɪ̈ˈkʰeɪ̯.ɾə], [sɪ̈ˈkʰɑ.ɾə]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdə, -ɑːdə

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”, 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.

   1. The periodical cicada.
      • 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

• cicada hawk
• cicada killer
• evening cicada
• hairy cicada
• periodical cicada

 

Translations

any of several insects of the order Hemiptera

• Ainu: ヤキ (yaki)
• Albanian: gjinkallë (sq) f
• Arabic: زِيز m (zīz)
• Armenian: կնճիթավոր ճպուռ (knčitʻavor čpuṙ), ցիկադա (cʻikada)

  Old Armenian: ճպուռն (čpuṙn)

• Belarusian: цыка́да f (cykáda)
• Bengali: উচ্চিংড়ে (ucciṅṛe)
• Bulgarian: цикада f (cikada), жътвар m (žǎtvar)
• Burmese: ပုစဉ်းရင်ကွဲ (my) (pu.cany:rangkwai:)
• Catalan: cigala (ca) f
• Chepang: लीर्
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟬／蝉 (zh) (chán), 蝉 (zh) (chán), 知了 (zh) (zhīliǎo)

• Czech: cikáda f
• Danish: cikade
• Dutch: cicade (nl) f
• Esperanto: cikado
• Estonian: tirt, tsikaad
• Finnish: laulukaskas (fi), kaskas (fi)
• French: cigale (fr) f
• Galician: carricanta f, carriola f, relo (gl) m, cantaruxa f, albariña f, Template:t*
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Zikade (de) f
• Greek: τζιτζίκι (el) n (tzitzíki)

  Ancient: τέττιξ m (téttix)

• Hindi: शलभ (hi) m (śalabh), सिकाडा (sikāḍā), झींगुर m (jhīṅgur), झीँगुर (hi) m (jhī̃gur)
• Hungarian: kabóca (hu)
• Indonesian: tonggeret (id)
• Italian: cicala (it) f
• Japanese: 蝉 (ja) (semi), セミ (ja) (semi)
• Javanese: tonggèrèt
• Khmer: រៃ (km) (rɨy)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 매미 (ko) (maemi), 쓰르라미 (ko) (sseureurami)
• Lao: ຈັກຈັ່ນ (chak chan)
• Latin: cicada f
• Latvian: cikāde f
• Lithuanian: cikada f
• Macedonian: цикада f (cikada)
• Malagasy: jorery (mg)
• Malay: reriang
• Malayalam: ചീവീട് (ml) (cīvīṭŭ)
• Maori: tātarakihi
• Mirandese: checharra f
• Navajo: wóóneeshchʼįįdii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sikade

• Persian: زنجره (fa) (zanjere)
• Polish: cykada (pl) f
• Portuguese: cigarra (pt) f
• Romanian: cicadă (ro) f, cicoare (ro) f
• Russian: цика́да (ru) f (cikáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цврчак m, цикада f

  Roman: cvrčak (sh) m, cikada (sh) f

• Slovak: cikáda (sk) f
• Slovene: škržat (sl) m
• Spanish: chicharra (es) f (Latin America), cigarra (es) f (standard use in Mexico and Spain - Southern Mexico: chicharra), coyuyo m (Northwestern Argentina)
• Swedish: cikada (sv)
• Tagalog: kulilis, kuliglig
• Thai: จักจั่น (jàk-gà-jàn)
• Ukrainian: цика́да (uk) f (cykáda)
• Vietnamese: ve sầu (vi)
• Volapük: zikad

See also

• cricket
• grasshopper
• locust

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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

1. cicada, tree-cricket
2. 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

• Vulgar Latin: *cīcāla
• → English: cicada
• → Galician: cicada
• → Macedonian: цикада (cikada)
• → Polish: cykada
• → Romanian: cicadă
• → Russian: цика́да f (cikáda)

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cicādā

1. ablative singular of cicāda

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

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Romanian

Noun

cicada

1. definite nominative singular of cicadă
2. definite accusative singular of cicadă