Where does “sigarèt” come from?

sigarèt (Réunion Creole French) 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...

sigarèt (Réunion Creole French): cigarette

Definitions

  1. cigarette

Ancestry of “sigarèt”, step by step

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