different between cigaret vs cigarette

English

Noun

cigaret (plural cigarets)

1. Dated form of cigarette.
   • 1890, Edward Jewitt Wheeler et al., The Literary Digest, page 53:

     He praised your cigaret, cursed feebly because his fresh milk tasted sour to him, and quietly went west.

Danish

Etymology

From French cigarette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [si?????ad?], [si??a??ad?]

Noun

cigaret c (singular definite cigaretten, plural indefinite cigaretter)

1. cigarette

Inflection

Derived terms

• cigaretbukser
• cigaretetui n
• cigaretmærke n
• cigaretpakke c
• cigaretpakning c
• cigaretpapir n
• cigaretrygning c
• cigaretrøg c
• cigaretrør n
• cigaretskod n
• cigaretstump c
• cigaretsælger c
• cigarettobak c
• cigarettænder c

Further reading

• “cigaret” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Alternative forms

• cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)

Etymology

Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.??.??t/, /s?.?????t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: cig?a?rette

Noun

cigarette (plural cigarettes)

1. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
   • 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse (?ISBN), page 20:

     Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:cigarette

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (sigre?)
• ? Urdu: ??????
• ? Welsh: sigarét

Translations

Verb

cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)

1. (slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.

   Could someone cigarette me?

See also

• cigar
• cigarillo
• smoke

French

Etymology

From cigare +? -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.?a.??t/

Noun

cigarette f (plural cigarettes)

1. cigarette

Synonyms

• clope (colloquial)

Derived terms

• cigarette électronique

Descendants

• ? Danish: cigaret
• ? Dutch: sigaret
• ? English: cigarette
• ? German: Zigarette
• Sicilian: sicaretta

Further reading

• “cigarette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).