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• cicad

語源

Borrowed from Latin cicāda, ultimately onomatopoeic. Doublet of cicala.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑː.də/, [sɪˈkʰeɪ̯.də], [sɪˈkʰɑː.də]
• (米国発音) IPA: /sɪˈkeɪ.də/, /sɪˈkɑ.də/, [sɪ̈ˈkʰeɪ̯.ɾə], [sɪ̈ˈkʰɑ.ɾə]
• 韻: -eɪdə, -ɑːdə

名詞

cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae or (archaic) cicadæ)

1. Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
   • 2012 March-April, Anna Lena Phillips, “Sneaky Silk Moths”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 172:

     Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.

   1. The periodical cicada.
      • 2011, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living‎, page 217:

        The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have now been recorded for a long time, and the oldest record of a swarm is that of the appearance of the “locusts” in New England two hundred and ninety-five years ago.

      • 2013 May 16, Laura Kroon, “Magicidada coming to New Jersey on May 27”, in Hunterdon County Democrat:

        Last year, the Brood I cicadas were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

同意語

• cicala
• harvest fly
• jarfly (Appalachia)
• lyreman

下位語

• (periodical cicada): seventeen-year locust, decim periodical cicada

派生語

参考

• cricket
• grasshopper
• locust

発音

• cicāda:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA: [kɪˈkaː.da]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [t͡ʃiˈkaː.da]

名詞

cicāda f (genitive cicādae); first declension

1. cicada, tree-cricket
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.327–330:

     Inde, ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora,
     Et cantu quaerulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
     Ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna jubebo
     currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam;
     […]

     • Translation by James B. Greenough, 1900

       When heaven's fourth hour draws on the thickening drought,
       And shrill cicalas pierce the brake with song,
       Then at the well-springs bid them, or deep pools,
       From troughs of holm-oak quaff the running wave:
       […]

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

Reflexes of the late variant cicāla:

Reflexes of an assumed variant *cicār(r)a:

参照

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎ (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 72

Further reading

• “cicada”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cicada”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cicada", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cicada”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cicada”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers