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]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chicharra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chicharra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chicharra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cigarra”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 73
Further reading
[edit]- “chicharra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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