Etymology

cigarette

cig·a·rette
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Today it means: A small cigar consisting of tobacco or another substance, wrapped up in a thin roll with paper, intended for smoking. Full definition →

French cigarette ← Spanish cigarro ← Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a
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The story

  1. Latincicāda
  2. Vulgar Latin*cicār(r)a
  3. Spanishcigarra?
  4. Spanishcigarro
  5. Frenchcigare
  6. Frenchcigarette
  7. English todaycigarette

Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.

Words from the same roots

Spanishcigarro all →

cigar

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.