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- Latin · borrowed fromcicāda
- English todaycicada
Borrowed from Latin cicāda, ultimately onomatopoeic. Doublet of cicala.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
cicada
Today it means: Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings. Full definition →
Latin cicāda