chicharra
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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
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