cigale
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan cigala, from Vulgar Latin *cicāla, from Latin cicāda.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cigale f (plural cigales)
- cicada (any of several insects of the order Hemiptera)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cigale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.