cigarrillo

Awa-Cuaiquer

Etymology

Spanish cigarrillo

Noun

cigarrillo

1. cigarette

References

• Curnow, T. J. (1997). A grammar of Awa Pit (Cuaiquer): An indigenous language of south-western Colombia. The Australian National University.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cigarrillo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ci‧ga‧rri‧llo

Noun

cigarrillo

1. cigarette

Spanish

Un cigarrillo.

Alternative forms

• cigarillo (nonstandard)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cicādader.

Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a

Spanish cigarra?

Spanish cigarro

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin -ellus

Old Spanish -iello

Spanish -illo

Spanish cigarrillo

From cigarro + -illo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /θiɡaˈriʝo/ [θi.ɣ̞aˈri.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)

• IPA^(key): /θiɡaˈriʝo/ [θi.ɣ̞aˈri.ʝo] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain)
• IPA^(key): /θiɡaˈriʎo/ [θi.ɣ̞aˈri.ʎo] (rustic northern Spain)

 

• IPA^(key): /siɡaˈriʝo/ [si.ɣ̞aˈri.ʝo] (Latin America)

• IPA^(key): /siɡaˈriʝo/ [si.ɣ̞aˈri.ʝo] (most of Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /siɡaˈriʎo/ [si.ɣ̞aˈri.ʎo] (northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /siɡaˈriʃo/ [si.ɣ̞aˈri.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /siɡaˈriʒo/ [si.ɣ̞aˈri.ʒo] (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /siɡaˈrio/ [si.ɣ̞aˈri.o] (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -iʝo

• Rhymes: -iʝo (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• Rhymes: -iʎo (rustic northern Spain, northern and central Andes Mountains (except central Ecuador), Bolivia, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -iʒo (central Ecuador, Santiago del Estero and environs, elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)
• Rhymes: -io (northern Mexico, Yucatán, Central America (except Panama))

• Syllabification: ci‧ga‧rri‧llo

Noun

cigarrillo m (plural cigarrillos)

1. cigarette

   Synonym: pitillo (rare)

Descendants

• → Awa-Cuaiquer: cigarrillo
• → Cebuano: sigarilyo
• → Central Bikol: sigarilyo
• → Chamorro: sigariyo
• → Chavacano: cigarrillo
• → Ilocano: sigarilio
• → Kapampangan: sigariliu
• → Portuguese: cigarrilha
• → Norwegian Bokmål: sigarillo
• → Tagalog: sigarilyo

Further reading

• “cigarrillo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025