different between cicadae vs cicada

English

Alternative forms

• cicadas

Noun

cicadae

1. plural of cicada

Latin

Noun

cic?dae

1. nominative plural of cic?da
2. genitive singular of cic?da
3. dative singular of cic?da
4. vocative plural of cic?da

English

Alternative forms

• cicad

Etymology

Wikispecies

Borrowed from Latin cicada, ultimately onomatopoeic. Doublet of cicala.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??ke?.d?/, /s??k??.d?/, [s??k?e??.d?], [s??k???.d?]
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??ke?.d?/, /s??k?.d?/, [s???k?e??.??], [s???k??.??]
• Rhymes: -e?d?, -??d?

Noun

cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae)

1. Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.
   1. The periodical cicada.

Synonyms

• cicala

Hyponyms

• (periodical cicada): seventeen-year locust, decim periodical cicada

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cricket
• grasshopper
• locust

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean substrate language, ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare also Sanskrit ??????? (ci?cira, “cicada”).

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• cic?da: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ki?ka?.da/, [k??kä?d?ä]
• cic?da: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??i?ka.da/, [t??i?k??d??]

Noun

cic?da f (genitive cic?dae); first declension

1. cicada, tree-cricket
2. vocative singular of cic?da

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Noun

cic?d?

1. ablative singular of cic?da

References

• cicada in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cicada in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cicada in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cicada in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cicada in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Noun

cicada

1. definite nominative singular of cicad?
2. definite accusative singular of cicad?