sigarillo

Norwegian Bokmål

Two cigarillos on a table.

Etymology

From Spanish cigarillo (“cigarette”), from both Spanish cigarro (“cigar, cigarette”), possibly from a Mayan language such as Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”) or Q'eqchi sik'ar (“to smoke”), possibly also from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”), from a Vulgar Latin root *cicāla (or an alternate Iberian variant form *cicāra), from Latin cicāda (“cicada”), possibly from a substrate language, ultimately onomatopoeic + and from -illo, from Old Spanish -iello, from Latin -ellus, an extension of -lus, alternative form of -ulus, from Proto-Italic *-olos, from earlier *-elos, from Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós, from *-lós (forms agent nouns from verbal roots).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪɡaˈrɪlːʊ/, /sɪɡaˈrɪljʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlːʊ, -ʊ
• Hyphenation: si‧ga‧ril‧lo

Noun

sigarillo m (definite singular sigarilloen, indefinite plural sigarilloer, definite plural sigarilloene)

1. (smoking) a cigarillo (a thin cigar, differing from a cigarette in being wrapped with tobacco leaves rather than paper)

   Synonym: cerutt

   • 1998, Stig Sæterbakken, Selvbeherskelse, page 5:

     hun hadde tent seg en lang og tynn sigarillo

     she had lit a long, thin cigarillo

   • 1997, Torgrim Eggen, Den nye Dylan, page 29:

     Sverre bød ham en sigarillo, en dyr brasiliansk panatella

     Sverre offered him a cigarillo, an expensive Brazilian panatella

Related terms

• sigar (“cigar”)
• sigarett (“cigarette”)

References

• “sigarillo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sigarillo” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “sigarillo” in Store norske leksikon