different between greta vs cicada

Portuguese

Noun

greta f (plural gretas)

1. slit, slot, groove, gap (narrow opening)
2. nearby
3. (informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)

Synonyms

• (woman's genitalia): See here

Verb

greta

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of gretar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of gretar

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?