cicala

[ si-kah-luh; Italian chee-kah-lah ]

/ sɪˈkɑ lə; Italian tʃiˈkɑ lɑ /

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noun, plural ci·ca·las, Italian ci·ca·le [chi-kah-le] /tʃɪˈkɑ lɛ/.

Nearby words

cibber, ciborium, cica, cicada, cicada killer, cicala, cicatrectomy, cicatricial alopecia, cicatricial horn, cicatricial tissue, cicatricle

Origin of cicala

< Italian < Latin cicāda cicada

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Examples from the Web for cicala

The word “cigales,” though really identical with our word “cicala,” seldom means the same thing.
Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn|Lafcadio Hearn
A cicala hidden in the heart of a pomegranate flower sang shrilly now and again.
Japanese Fairy Tales|Grace James
In some foreign words like cicala the ch- (tsh) value is given to c.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4|Various
Cicala, his home, he describes as a “little village of four or five cottages not too magnificent.”
Giordano Bruno|James Lewis McIntyre

Filelfo retaliated by describing Cicala's vices in the most lurid colours to Sixtus.
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7)|John Addington Symonds

British Dictionary definitions for cicala

cicala

/ (sɪˈkɑːlə, Italian tʃiˈkala) /

noun plural -las or -le (-leɪ, Italian -le)

another name for cicada

Word Origin for cicala

C19: from Italian, from Latin: cicada

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