蝉

蝉 (canonical)
蝉 (canonical)
semi (romanization)

/sen/ → */semu/ → /semi/
Ultimately from Middle Chinese 蟬 (MC dzyen). Compare 文 (fumi).

generic name for a cicada (any of several insects of the order Hemiptera); locust (chiefly US)


蜩

蜩 (canonical)
蜩 (canonical)
higurashi (romanization)

[çiɡɯ̟ɾa̠ɕi]


蜩

蜩 (canonical)
蜩 (canonical)
kanakana (romanization)


locust

From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste.
The tree sense, originally referring to the carob (compare locust bean), is based on the resemblance of the trees' beanlike seed pods to the insect and is likely a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἀκρίς (akrís).
The sense in "Mainlander" is a semantic loan from Cantonese 蝗蟲／蝗虫 (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".

sl

(Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander.


cicada

en-noun

cicada (plural cicadas or cicadae or (archaic) cicadæ)

cicadas (plural)
cicadae (plural)
cicadæ (archaic plural)

[sɪˈkʰɑː.də]

[sɪ̈ˈkʰeɪ̯.ɾə]

[sɪ̈ˈkʰɑ.ɾə]

Borrowed from Latin cicāda, ultimately onomatopoeic. Doublet of cicala.

sonbesie

any of several insects of the order Hemiptera

chicharra)

cigarra f (standard use in Mexico and Spain - Southern Mexico

The emergence years of the principal cicada broods have now been recorded for a long time, and the oldest record of a swarm is that of the appearance of the “locusts” in New England two hundred and ninety-five years ago.

2011, Robert Evans Snodgrass, Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living, page 217:

Last year, the Brood I cicadas were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

2013 May 16, Laura Kroon, “Magicidada coming to New Jersey on May 27”, in Hunterdon County Democrat:

Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent well-veined wings.


cicala

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda.


fiddler

From Middle English fithelere, from Old English fiþelere, from *fiþele. By surface analysis, fiddle + -er.
(capstan-house): So called because the fiddle would sometimes be played to cheer the sailors working there.

A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.


greengrocer

/ˈɡɹinˌɡɹəʊs.ə(ɹ)/

(chiefly British, Commonwealth, Ireland) A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop.


clanger

From clang (“loud ringing sound”) + -er.

(Australia, entomology) A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.


tettix

From Ancient Greek τέττιξ (téttix), or perhaps a modern Greek descendant thereof.

[T]he Tettix or Cicada in the day time is extremely troubleſome. It is a brown inſect reſembling a chafer, with wings much longer than its body, and thin like thoſe of a fly. […] Dionyſius of Syracuſe ſignified his reſolution to burn and lay waſte the territory of a people, with whom he had a quarrel, when he ſaid, that, if they refuſed to comply with his demands, their Tettixes ſhould ſing on the ground.

1776, Richard Chandler, “chapter LXXXII”, in Travels in Asia Minor: Or An Account of a Tour Made at the Expense of the Society of Dilettanti, 2nd edition, London: Sold by J[ames] Dodsley, J[ames] Robson, T[homas] Cadell, P[eter] Elmsley, and G. Robinson; Oxford: D. Prince, →OCLC, pages 276–277:

[T]hat Greek waste silent but for the risp of the tettix and the wash of listless wind through the spare grass.

1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: Six Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN:

The woman who had lived on no food at all, however, recalls once more the insect into which Tithonos was transformed: the tettix, which was believed to exist without food or drink, or only on dew, or on dew and air.

1989, Helen King, “Tithonos and the Tettix”, in Thomas M. Falkner, Judith de Luce, editors, Old Age in Greek and Latin Literature (SUNY Series in Classical Studies), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 75:


Magicicada

From Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician”)+ Latin cicada.

A taxonomic genus within the family Cicadidae – some North America periodical cicadas, whose nymphs take 13 or 17 years to mature, so that the adults emerge in great numbers at infrequent intervals.


kumazemi

A cicada, Cryptotympana facialis, from subtropical eastern Asia, that makes a particularly loud noise


red-eye

en-noun

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Agkistrodon contortrix Linnaeus.—Cotton-mouth, Highland Moccasin, Rattlesnake Pilot, Red-eye.

[1905, F. N. Notestein, “The Ophidia of Michigan with an Analytical Key”, in Seventh Report of the Michigan Academy of Science: […], Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, →OCLC, page 120:

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

(countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.

(US) Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).


cykada

cykada (nominative singular)
cykady (nominative plural)
cykady (genitive singular)
cykad (genitive plural)
cykadzie (dative singular)
cykadom (dative plural)
cykadę (accusative singular)
cykady (accusative plural)
cykadą (instrumental singular)
cykadami (instrumental plural)
cykadzie (locative singular)
cykadach (locative plural)
cykado (singular vocative)
cykady (plural vocative)

cicada (any of several insects of the order Hemiptera)


cigale

Borrowed from Old Occitan cigala, from Vulgar Latin *cicāla, from Latin cicāda.


Zikade

de-noun

Zikade f (genitive Zikade, plural Zikaden)

Zikade (genitive)
Zikaden (plural)
Zikade (nominative singular)
Zikaden (definite nominative plural)
Zikade (genitive singular)
Zikaden (definite genitive plural)
Zikade (dative singular)
Zikaden (dative definite plural)
Zikade (accusative singular)
Zikaden (accusative definite plural)

Dazu zirpten unzählige Zikaden, schillernde Libellen schossen surrend durch die Luft, […]

1921, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Trommel, in Weberin Schuld, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 8

In addition countless cicadas chirped, iridescent dragonflies shot buzzingly through the air, […]

cicada (any hemipteran of the suborder Auchenorrhyncha)


cicoare

cicori (plural)
cicoare (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cicoarea (accusative definite nominative singular)
cicori (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
cicorile (accusative definite nominative plural)
cicori (indefinite singular)
cicorii (definite singular)
cicori (indefinite plural)
cicorilor (definite plural)
cicoare (singular vocative)
cicoareo (singular vocative)
cicorilor (plural vocative)

From Early Medieval Latin cicāla, from Latin cicāda. The hypothetical original Romanian form, *cicară, was probably influenced phonetically by the unrelated word below. Doublet of cicadă, a borrowing.

(regional) cicada (especially Cicada orni)


cicadid

(zoology) Any cicada in the family Cicadidae.


tettigarctid

(zoology) Any member of the Tettigarctidae, the hairy cicadas.


Cicadidae

A taxonomic family within the order Hemiptera – most Eurasian and American cicadas, true cicadas.


Cicada

A taxonomic genus within the family Cicadidae – certain European cicadas.


periodical cicada

en-noun

periodical cicada (plural periodical cicadas)

An emergence is when a throng of periodical cicadas rises from the ground as soon as the soil reaches about 64 degrees Fahrenheit. The groups of magicicadas, known as broods, surface only once every 13 or 17 years depending on the species.

2013 May 3, Megan Buerger, “Bugged by Cicada Swarm? Don't Be”, in Wall Street Journal:

Any of certain species of cicadas, especially in genus Magicicada, which are known for their 17- and 13-year life-cycles, during most of which they develop underground, emerging in large numbers for a short time as large and audible adults, all those emerging in a year constituting a brood.


seventeen-year locust

seventeen-year locust (plural seventeen-year locusts)

Certain periodical cicadas, of genus Magicauda, a brood of which is to emerge in the US in 2024, together with a brood of thirteen-year cicadas, such co-emergence occurring only once in more than 200 years.


dog-day cicada

A large American cicada (Neotibicen canicularis), which emits a loud, high-pitched whining sound in midsummer.


evening cicada

evening cicada (plural evening cicadas or evening cicadae)

evening cicadas (plural)
evening cicadae (plural)

A species of cicada, Tanna japonensis, having a shrill call that can be heard most often in the morning and evening.


茅蜩

ja-noun

茅(ぼう)蜩(ちょう) • (bōchō) ^(←ばうてう (bauteu)?)

茅蜩 (canonical)
bōchō (romanization)
bauteu (romanization)
ばうてう (hiragana historical)

[bo̞ːt͡ɕo̞ː]


Neotibicen

A taxonomic genus within the family Cicadidae – certain cicadas.


chicharra

Ultimately from Latin cicāda. Compare Spanish chicharra.


kuliglig

kuliglíg (canonical)
ᜃᜓᜎᜒᜄ᜔ᜎᜒᜄ᜔ (Baybayin)


cicadoid

Any cicada of the superfamily Cicadoidea


ve sầu

[vɛ˧˧ səw˨˩]

[vɛ˧˧ ʂəw˦˩]

[vɛ˧˧ səw˦˩]

[vɛ˧˧ ʂəw˨˩]

[jɛ˧˧ səw˨˩]

Những câu hô như vậy chen lẫn những tiếng bồm bộp của những quả ban bị đánh đi, như giữ nhịp cho khúc âm nhạc của mấy vạn con ve sầu.

1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 1, in Số đỏ, Hà Nội báo:

Cries such as these ones alternated with the plop plop sounds of the balls that were being hit, as if keeping the beat for the song of the myriads of cicadas.


cicadettine

Any cicada of the subfamily Cicadettinae


piewik

piewik (nominative singular)
piewiki (nominative plural)
piewika (genitive singular)
piewików (genitive plural)
piewikowi (dative singular)
piewikom (dative plural)
piewika (accusative singular)
piewiki (accusative plural)
piewikiem (instrumental singular)
piewikami (instrumental plural)
piewiku (locative singular)
piewikach (locative plural)
piewiku (singular vocative)
piewiki (plural vocative)


silver knight

Coordinate term: black prince

A green form of the cicada Psaltoda plaga, of eastern Australia.


black prince

A butterfly of species Rohana parisatis, family Nymphalidae, of Indomalaya.


쓰르라미

[s͈ɯɾɯɾa̠mi]

쓰를 (sseureul, “call of a cicada”, onomatopoeia) + 암이 (ami, noun-deriving suffix).

compound

ᄆᆡ암이ᄆᆡᆸ다울고쓰르람이쓰다우니 / 산ᄎᆡ를ᄆᆡᆸ다는가박쥬를쓰다는가

c. 1850, 歌曲源流 (Gagok wollyu) [Flowing Spring of Song]:

"Spicy [maep (maep)]" cries the cicada, "bitter [sseu (sseu)]" cries the evening cicada. / Do they take the mountain herbs as spicy, or the sour liquor as bitter?

Maeam-i maepda ulgo sseureurami seuda uni / Sanchae-reul maepdaneun'ga bakju-reul sseudaneun'ga.


cherry nose

A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia, having a red nose.


razor grinder

A large brown cicada, Henicopsaltria eydouxii, of eastern Australia.


bladder cicada

A cicada of the Australian genus Cystosoma, especially Cystosoma saundersii, of eastern Australia, having a large green abdomen.


double drummer

A large cicada, of species Thopha saccata, of eastern Australia, having prominent tymbals with which they produce a very loud song.


floury miller

The floury baker cicada, of eastern Australia.


yellow Monday

A yellowish form of the greengrocer cicada of eastern Australia.


floury baker

A large cicada, Aleeta curvicosta, of eastern Australia, having white filaments covering the body that give the impression of a dusting of flour; floury miller.


Brood X

One of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that appear regularly throughout the eastern United States.


熊蝉

熊蝉 (canonical)
熊蝉 (canonical)
kumazemi (romanization)

Cryptotympana facialis, a species of cicada


carricanta

A compound carri (“cart”) + canta (“sings”).


깽깽이

From 깽깽 (kkaengkkaeng, sound made in pain) + 이 (-i, “noun suffix”).

af

깽깽이걸음 깽깽이걸음#Korean

Short for 깽깽이걸음 (kkaengkkaeng'igeoreum, “hopping gait”).


Tibicen

Borrowed from Latin tībīcen m (“piper, flautist”), likely due to the loud noise cicadas of this genus tend to make.

(obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Cicadidae – certain cicadas, now mostly in the genus Lyristes.


Lyristes

Borrowed from Latin lyristēs m (“lyrist”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek λῠρῐστής m (luristḗs, “lyrist”).

der

A taxonomic genus within the family Cicadidae – certain species of cicadas, ranging from Europe to the Middle East.


resh cicada

From resh + cicada, a partial calque of translingual Megatibicen resh. From a character, either Aramaic 𐡓 (r), Hebrew ר (r) or Arabic ر (r), named resh, which resembles patterns commonly found on the thoraxes of members of this species.

pclq

Megatibicen resh, a species of cicada found most commonly in Texas.


Singzikade

de-noun

Singzikade f (genitive Singzikade, plural Singzikaden)

Singzikade (genitive)
Singzikaden (plural)
Singzikade (nominative singular)
Singzikaden (definite nominative plural)
Singzikade (genitive singular)
Singzikaden (definite genitive plural)
Singzikade (dative singular)
Singzikaden (dative definite plural)
Singzikade (accusative singular)
Singzikaden (accusative definite plural)

From singen (“to sing”) + Zikade (“cicada”).

true cicada (any cicada of the family Cicadidae)


Zwergzikade

Zwergzikade f (genitive Zwergzikade, plural Zwergzikaden)

Zwergzikade (genitive)
Zwergzikaden (plural)
Zwergzikade (nominative singular)
Zwergzikaden (definite nominative plural)
Zwergzikade (genitive singular)
Zwergzikaden (definite genitive plural)
Zwergzikade (dative singular)
Zwergzikaden (dative definite plural)
Zwergzikade (accusative singular)
Zwergzikaden (accusative definite plural)

From Zwerg (“dwarf”) + Zikade (“cicada”).

leaf-hopper (any insect of the family Cicadellidae)


Pelzsingzikade

Pelzsingzikade f (genitive Pelzsingzikade, plural Pelzsingzikaden)

Pelzsingzikade (genitive)
Pelzsingzikaden (plural)
Pelzsingzikade (nominative singular)
Pelzsingzikaden (definite nominative plural)
Pelzsingzikade (genitive singular)
Pelzsingzikaden (definite genitive plural)
Pelzsingzikade (dative singular)
Pelzsingzikaden (dative definite plural)
Pelzsingzikade (accusative singular)
Pelzsingzikaden (accusative definite plural)

From Pelz (“fur”) + Singzikade (“true cicada”).