cicala

[ si-kah-luh; Italian chee-kah-lah ]

/ sɪˈkɑ lə; Italian tʃiˈkɑ lɑ /

cicada.

Origin of cicala

< Italian < Latin cicāda cicada

The word “cigales,” though really identical with our word “cicala,” seldom means the same thing.

Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn |Lafcadio Hearn
A cicala hidden in the heart of a pomegranate flower sang shrilly now and again.

Japanese Fairy Tales |Grace James
In some foreign words like cicala the ch- (tsh) value is given to c.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 |Various
Cicala, his home, he describes as a “little village of four or five cottages not too magnificent.”

Giordano Bruno |James Lewis McIntyre

Filelfo retaliated by describing Cicala's vices in the most lurid colours to Sixtus.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) |John Addington Symonds

cicala

/ (sɪˈkɑːlə, Italian tʃiˈkala) /

another name for cicada

C19: from Italian, from Latin: cicada