Where does “cigarette” come from?

Cigarette derives from French cigarette, a diminutive of cigare from Spanish cigarra, ultimately from Latin cicada, a cicada insect.

cigarette (English): Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll...

Definitions

  1. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll...

Ancestry of “cigarette”, step by step

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

Words derived from “cigarette

Every word from Latin cicada