cigarette

• cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)

Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette

cigarette (plural cigarettes)

1. Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.

   • 2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 20:

     Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it.

• See also Thesaurus:cigarette

• → Welsh: sigarét

cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)

1. (slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.

Could someone cigarette me?

• cigar
• cigarillo
• nonmailable
• smoke

From cigare +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /si.ɡa.ʁɛt/

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cigarette f (plural cigarettes)

1. cigarette

• clope (colloquial)

• Dutch: sigaret
• English: cigarette
• German: Zigarette

• “cigarette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).