Word Origin Summary

Cicada is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• chicharra

  Galician · derived from

• cicada

  English · borrowed from

• Cicada

  Translingual · derived from

• Magicicada

  Translingual · derived from

• cicade

  Dutch · derived from

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