cigarro

Interlingua

Noun

cigarro (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar

Portuguese
cigarro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cigarro.[1][2]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.hu]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɡa.χu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁo/ [siˈɡa.ho]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /siˈɡa.ʁu/ [siˈɣa.ʁu]

  • Rhymes: -aʁu
  • Hyphenation: ci‧gar‧ro

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. cigarette

References
  1. “cigarro” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. “cigarro” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish
Cuatro cigarros.

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain,[1] or from a Mayan language, compare Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sik'ar (“to smoke”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θiˈɡaro/ [θiˈɣ̞a.ro]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /siˈɡaro/ [siˈɣ̞a.ro]
  • Audio (Colombia)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aro
  • Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rro

Noun

cigarro m (plural cigarros)

  1. cigar
    Synonym: puro
  2. cigarette

Derived terms

(diminutive cigarrillo or cigarrito)

Descendants
Descendants

References
  1. Roberto Ignacio Díaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature (2002), page 169
  2. Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words That Come From Spanish (2007, edited by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries), pages 67-68

Further reading
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