Where does “cigarreta” come from?

cigarreta (Catalan) comes from French cigarette, from French cigare, from Spanish cigarro, from Spanish cigarra, from Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicada — cicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of...

cigarreta (Catalan): cigarette

Definitions

  1. cigarette

Ancestry of “cigarreta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcigarettecigarette
2Frenchcigarecigar
3Spanishcigarrocigar; cigarette
4Spanishcigarracicada
5Vulgar Latin*cicār(r)a
6Latincicadacicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of...
Every word from Latin cicada
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