chicharra
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin cicāda. Compare Spanish chicharra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chicharra f (plural chicharras)
- cicada
- Synonyms: carricanta, cantariña
References edit
- “chicharra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “chicharra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “chicharra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From an older *chicarra, borrowed from an unattested Mozarabic descendant of Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicāda. Doublet of cigarra, the native outcome.
Noun edit
chicharra f (plural chicharras)
- cicada
- Synonym: cigarra
- 1905, La chicharra y la rana:
- Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba.
- Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
chicharra
- inflection of chicharrar:
References edit
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 73
Further reading edit
- “chicharra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014