cigarro

cigar (rolled bundle of tobacco made for smoking); cigarette (thin roll of tobacco made for smoking)

Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarro Uncertain. Possiblities include: * Perhaps from cigarro (“male cicada”), a form of cigarra (“cicada”) found in some older texts particularly from southern Spain. * From a Mayan language. Compare Yucatec Maya siyar (“to smoke tobacco leaves”), Q'eqchi sikʼar (“to smoke”).