sigarillo

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Two cigarillos on a table.

Etymology

From Spanish cigarillo (cigarette), from both Spanish cigarro (cigar, cigarette), possibly from a Mayan language such as Yucatec Maya siyar (to smoke tobacco leaves) or Q'eqchi sik'ar (to smoke), possibly also from cigarro (male cicada), a form of cigarra (cicada), from a Vulgar Latin root *cicāla (or an alternate Iberian variant form *cicāra), from Latin cicāda (cicada), possibly from a substrate language, ultimately onomatopoeic + and from -illo, from Old Spanish -iello, from Latin -ellus, an extension of -lus, alternative form of -ulus, from Proto-Italic *-olos, from earlier *-elos, from Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós, from *-lós (forms agent nouns from verbal roots).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪɡaˈrɪlːʊ/, /sɪɡaˈrɪljʊ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪlːʊ,
  • Hyphenation: si‧ga‧ril‧lo

Noun

sigarillo m (definite singular sigarilloen, indefinite plural sigarilloer, definite plural sigarilloene)

  1. (smoking) a cigarillo (a thin cigar, differing from a cigarette in being wrapped with tobacco leaves rather than paper)
    Synonym: cerutt
    • 1998, Stig Sæterbakken, Selvbeherskelse, page 5:
      hun hadde tent seg en lang og tynn sigarillo
      she had lit a long, thin cigarillo
    • 1997, Torgrim Eggen, Den nye Dylan, page 29:
      Sverre bød ham en sigarillo, en dyr brasiliansk panatella
      Sverre offered him a cigarillo, an expensive Brazilian panatella

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