different between nonmailable vs cigarette

English

Etymology

non- +? mailable

Adjective

nonmailable (not comparable)

1. Not mailable; that cannot (legally) be sent by mail.

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).