Where does “cigar” come from?

Cigar comes from Spanish cigarro, which derives from Spanish cigarra, itself from Latin cicala, ultimately from Latin cicada meaning "cicada."

cigar (English): Tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering...

Definitions

  1. Tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering...

Ancestry of “cigar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcigarrocigar; cigarette
2Spanishcigarracicada
3Vulgar Latin*cicār(r)a
4Latincicadacicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of...

Words derived from “cigar

Every word from Latin cicada