Translation
cigarette
Word origin
From French cigarette, a diminutive of cigare, which came from Spanish cigarro. Where the Spanish word itself came from is genuinely disputed.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- cigarette
- English cognates
- cigarette, cigar
Other proposed origins
- Often traced to Mayan sikar, to smoke rolled tobacco leaves, picked up by Spanish in the Americas. (sikar)
- Others derive it from Spanish cigarra, a cicada, on the shape of the rolled leaf. (cigarra)
Examples
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He smoked a cigarette by the window.
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The cigarettes were lying on the table.
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She stopped smoking cigarettes three years ago.
A false seam worth naming: looks like plus a suffix, but Esperanto has no -ed- affix. Both words are separate borrowings that happen to share a shape. If you want the built-in diminutive, the word is o, and it does get used. Note that Esperanto smokes with , which is also what a chimney does.
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