The corpus record — Latin

cicada

cicada · f

the cicada

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Where it lives

Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
De Rerum Natura 2 · 0.41/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cĭcāda — Lewis & Short

cĭcāda, ae, f.,

I the cicada, tree-cricket: Cicada orni, Linn.; Plin. 11, 26, 32, § 92 sq.; Lucr. 4, 56; 5, 801; Verg. E. 2, 13; 5, 77; id. G. 3, 328; id. Cul. 151 al.—Worn as an ornament in the hair of the Athenians, Verg. Cir. 128 Sillig; cf. Lidd. and Scott, under te/ttic.—As a symbol of summer, Ov. A. A. 1, 271; Juv. 9, 69.

2. cicäda — Walde–Hofmann

cicäda, -ae f. „Baumgrille, Zikade* (seit Nov., in Gl. und rom. auch cic@la, IJ. 14, 124 n. 171; cicädes lsid., s. Sofer leid. 46): vl. nach Niedermann Festg. Kägi 80! samt gr. Zevrapd (Zeiydpn trad.)‘ 6 tern mapd Xia Hes. (vgl. auch ewaX(qlo(* ... ol äypıoı téccec und Zepepíoi* uud)v vévoc) aus einer Mittelmeersprache entlehnt. — Unwrach. v. Ettmayer ZRPh. 32, 725 (aus *ci-cäla : calüre, -d- sekundär wie in adeps). … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cicäda, p. 243]

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cicada (scan p. 143; entry #2116).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cicäda (scan p. 243; entry #633).

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