cicalaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /sɪˈkɑːlə/

名詞

cicala (plural cicalas)

1. A cicada.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.106:

     The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 227-228:

     She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.

別の表記

• cicale

アナグラム

• Alcaic, calcia

名詞

cicāla f (genitive cicālae); first declension

1. Alternative form of cicāda (“cricket”)

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• see: cicāda

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