cicala

English

Etymology

From Italian cicala and Occitan cicala. Doublet of cicada.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪˈkɑːlə/

Noun

cicala (plural cicalas)

1. A cicada.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.106:

     The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 227-228:

     She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.

Alternative forms

• cicale

Anagrams

• Alcaic, calcia

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.la/
• Rhymes: -ala
• Hyphenation: ci‧cà‧la

Etymology 1

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda.

Noun

cicala f (plural cicale)

1. cicada
2. (vulgar, regional) cunt, pussy
3. (nautical) the ring at the top of an anchor to which the chain is attached

Derived terms

• madrecicala
• cicaleccio
• cicaletta
• cicalina, cicalino
• cicalone

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cicala

1. inflection of cicalare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• calcai, calcia, laccai, laccia

Latin

Etymology

Alteration of the Classical cicāda. Attested in a ninth-century manuscript containing the Hermeneumata Montepessulana.

Noun

cicāla f (genitive cicālae); first declension

1. Alternative form of cicāda (“cricket”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cicāla	cicālae
Genitive	cicālae	cicālārum
Dative	cicālae	cicālīs
Accusative	cicālam	cicālās
Ablative	cicālā	cicālīs
Vocative	cicāla	cicālae

Descendants

• see: cicāda