cicala

English

Etymology

From Italian cicala and Occitan cicala. Doublet of cicada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪˈkɑːlə/

Noun

cicala (plural cicalas)

1. A cicada.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.106:

     The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 227-228:

     She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.

Alternative forms

• cicale

Anagrams

• Alcaic, calcia

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• cercigala, cigala, cicalla, ardicala

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θiˈkala/
• IPA^(key): /siˈkala/ (Benasquese)
• Syllabification: ci‧ca‧la
• Rhymes: -ala

Noun

cicala f (plural cicalas)

1. cicada

Further reading

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: ci‧cà‧la

Etymology 1

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda.

Noun

cicala f (plural cicale)

1. cicada
2. (vulgar, regional) cunt, pussy
3. (nautical) the ring at the top of an anchor to which the chain is attached

Derived terms

• madrecicala
• cicaleccio
• cicaletta
• cicalina, cicalino
• cicalone

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cicala

1. inflection of cicalare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• calcai, calcia, laccai, laccia