cicala

From Italian cicala and Occitan cicala. Doublet of cicada.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪˈkɑːlə/

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], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 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.

• Alcaic, calcia

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

From Vulgar Latin *cicāla, from Latin cicāda.

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cicala

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

• calcai, calcia, laccai, laccia