Italian edit

Etymology edit

From cicala (cicada) +‎ -are; compare Ćići, a Slavic tribe of Croatia and Slovenia, named so by the Slavs because they couldn't understand their dialect.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃi.kaˈla.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ci‧ca‧là‧re

Verb edit

cicalàre (first-person singular present cicàlo, first-person singular past historic cicalài, past participle cicalàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (intransitive) to chatter, to jabber, to blather [auxiliary avere]
  2. (intransitive) to gossip [auxiliary avere]
  3. (transitive, rare) to say insistently

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