cigarro

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

Pronunciation

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. alternative form of cigar
  2. (colloquial) cigarette (thin roll of tobacco made for smoking)
    Synonyms: cigarret, cigarreta

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

cigarro (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar (rolled bundle of tobacco made for smoking)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɣa.ʁu]

  • Rhymes: -aʁu
  • Hyphenation: ci‧gar‧ro

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
Latin cicādader.
Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a
Spanish cigarra?
Spanish cigarrobor.
Portuguese cigarro

    Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.

    Noun

    cigarro m (plural cigarros, diminutive cigarrinho or cigarrozinho)

    1. cigarette (thin roll of tobacco made for smoking)
    Derived terms
    • cigarreiro
    • cigarrinho (diminutive)
    • cigarro de artista
    • cigarro de enrolar
    • cigarro eletrônico (Brazil), cigarro eletrónico (Portugal)
    • cigarrozinho (diminutive)
    • não valer um cigarro fumado
    Descendants
    • Kabuverdianu: sigaru
    • → Tetum: sigaru

    Etymology 2

    Alteration of cigarra.

    Noun

    cigarro m (plural cigarros)

    1. (Madeira) locust

    Etymology 3

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    cigarro

    1. first-person singular present indicative of cigarrar

    See also

    Further reading

    Spanish

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Latin cicādader.
    Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a
    Spanish cigarra?
    Spanish cigarro

      Uncertain. Possiblities include:

      • Perhaps from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain.[1]
      • From a Mayan language. Compare Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sikʼar (“to smoke”).[2]

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /θiˈɡaro/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ro] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
      • IPA(key): /siˈɡaro/ [siˈɣ̞a.ro] (Latin America, Philippines)
      • Audio (Colombia):(file)
      • Rhymes: -aro
      • Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rro

      Noun

      cigarro m (plural cigarros)

      1. cigar (rolled bundle of tobacco made for smoking)
        Synonym: puro
      2. cigarette (thin roll of tobacco made for smoking)

      Derived terms

      Descendants

      References

      1. ^ Roberto Ignacio Díaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature (2002), page 169
      2. ^ Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish (2007, edited by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries), pages 67-68

      Further reading

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