Where does “cigarettacsempész” come from?

cigarettacsempész (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian cigaretta, from German Zigarette, 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...

cigarettacsempész (Hungarian): cigarette smuggler, buttlegger

Definitions

  1. cigarette smuggler, buttlegger

Ancestry of “cigarettacsempész”, step by step

cigarettacsempész traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian cigaretta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariancigarettacigarette
2GermanZigarettecigarette
3Frenchcigarettecigarette
4Frenchcigarecigar
5Spanishcigarrocigar; cigarette
6Spanishcigarracicada
7Vulgar Latin*cicār(r)a
8Latincicadacicada, tree-cricket; vocative singular of...

via Hungarian csempész

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariancsempészsmuggler; to smuggle
2Hungariancsempeszfalse, fraudulent
Every word from Latin cicada
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