cigarette

A2 Topic:People & Society

US /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/ See IPA manual

Freq #2416

Meanings

1

noun
A thin roll of tobacco in paper that people smoke.

He lit a cigarette and stared out the window.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a thin roll of tobacco in... cigciggybutt

Word family

Forms cigarettes

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Phrases (1)

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cigarette lighter
a small device that produces a flame for lighting cigarettes

Noun + noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarrobor. French cigare French -ette French cigarettebor. English cigarette Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.

cigarro Spanish

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Topics

People & Society

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# cigarette

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/
**Frequency rank:** 2416

## Meanings
1. A thin roll of tobacco in paper that people smoke.

## Examples
- He lit a cigarette and stared out the window.

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: cigarro
- Affix: -ette - small

## Etymology
Etymology tree Latin cicādader. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a Spanish cigarra? Spanish cigarrobor. French cigare French -ette French cigarettebor. English cigarette Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette.

## AI Etymology
Cigarette is borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro plus diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar plus -ette. The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as a noun, cigarette denotes a thin roll of tobacco in paper that people smoke. Typical contexts include “He lit a cigarette and stared out the window”.

## Topics
- People & Society

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