cigarro

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Interlingua

Noun

cigarro (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar

Portuguese

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish cigarro.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cigarro m (plural s)

  1. cigarette

Spanish

Cuatro cigarros.

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; perhaps from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain,[1] or from a Mayan language, compare Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sik'ar (“to smoke”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /θiˈɡaro/ (Spain)
  • IPA(key): /siˈɡaro/ (Latin America)
  • Rhymes: -aro

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar
  2. cigarette

Synonyms

Derived terms

(diminutive cigarrillo or cigarrito)

Descendants

  • English: cigar
  • French: cigare

References

  1. ^ Roberto Ignacio Díaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature (2002), page 169
  2. ^ Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish (2007, edited by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries), pages 67-68
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