cigarra

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicāda.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁɐ/ [siˈɡa.hɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁɐ/ [siˈɡa.hɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁɐ/ [siˈɡa.χɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁa/ [siˈɡa.ha]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /siˈɡa.ʁɐ/ [siˈɣa.ʁɐ]

• Rhymes: -aʁɐ
• Hyphenation: ci‧gar‧ra

Noun

cigarra f (plural cigarras)

1. cicada (any of several insects of the order Hemiptera)

Further reading

• “cigarra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cigarra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicāda. Doublet of chicharra, which arrived via Mozarabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θiˈɡara/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ra] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /siˈɡara/ [siˈɣ̞a.ra] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rra

Noun

cigarra f (plural cigarras)

1. cicada

Related terms

• cigala
• cigarro

References

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 72

Further reading

• “cigarra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025