cigarette
English
a cigarette in an ashtray
Alternative forms
- cigaret (US spelling, sometimes)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪ.ɡə.ɹɛt/, /sɪ.ɡəˈɹɛt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- Hyphenation: cig‧a‧rette
Noun
cigarette (plural cigarettes)
- Tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 46:
- 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.
- 1989 January 27, Stephen Fry & al., "Doctor Tobacco" A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:
- Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before?
Patient: Um, what is it?
Tobacconist: It's a simple nicotinal arsenous monoxid preparation taken bronchially as an infumation.
Patient: Infumation?
Tobacconist: Yes, you just light the end and breathe it.
Patient: What, like cigarettes?
Tobacconist: You know them then. Actually, it's a bit hard to admit but they're basically an herbal remedy... A leaf originally from the Americas, I believe, called tobacco.
Patient: But medicated?
Tobacconist: Medicated? No.
Patient: These are ordinary cigarettes?
Tobacconist: That's right.
Patient: But they're terribly bad for you, aren't they?
Tobacconist: I hardly think I would be prescribing them if they were bad for you.
Patient: Twenty a day?
Tobacconist: Yes, ideally moving on to about thirty or forty.
- Tobacconist: Right. I want to try you on a course of these: one twenty times a day. Have you taken them before?
- 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.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:cigarette
Derived terms
- cigarette beetle
- cigarette boat
- cigarette-boat
- cigarette camp
- cigarette card
- cigarette case
- cigarette deck
- cigarette girl
- cigarette holder
- cigaretteless
- cigarette lighter
- cigarettelike
- cigarette machine
- cigarette pants
- cigarette paper
- cigarette pastry
- e-cigarette
- electronic cigarette
- left-handed cigarette
- menthol cigarette
Descendants
- → Assamese: চিগাৰেট (sigaret)
- → Bengali: সিগারেট (sigareṭ)
- → Burmese: စီးကရက် (ci:ka.rak), စီးကလိပ် (ci:ka.lip)
- → Mon: ၜံက်သဳဂါရိတ်, သဳဂါရိတ်
- → Gujarati: સિગારેટ (sigāreṭ)
- → Hindi: सिगरेट (sigreṭ)
- → Niuean: hikaleti
- → Sinhalese: සිගරෙට්ටුව (sigareṭṭuwa)
- → Telugu: సిగరెట్టు (sigareṭṭu)
- → Urdu: سگریٹ (sigareṭ)
- → Welsh: sigarét
Translations
tobacco or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked
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Verb
cigarette (third-person singular simple present cigarettes, present participle cigaretting, simple past and past participle cigaretted)
- (slang, rare) To give someone a cigarette, and/or to light one for them.
- Could someone cigarette me?
See also
- cigar
- cigarillo
- smoke
French
Etymology
From cigare + -ette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.ɡa.ʁɛt/
audio (file)
Noun
cigarette f (plural cigarettes)
- cigarette
- Synonyms: clope, sèche
- Hyponyms: Gitane, Gauloise
- Meronyms: filtre, papier, tabac
Derived terms
- cigarette électronique
- cigarettier
- fume-cigarette
Descendants
- → Belarusian: цыгарэта (cyhareta)
- → Catalan: cigarret
- → Danish: cigaret
- → Dutch: sigaret (see there for further descendants)
- → English: cigarette (see there for further descendants)
- → Georgian: სიგარეტი (sigareṭi)
- → German: Zigarette (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: sigaretta (see there for further descendants)
- → Norwegian: sigarett
- → Pashto: سګرېټ (segréṭ)
- → Persian: سیگارت (sigâret)
- → Romansch: zigareta, cigaretta
- → Russian: сигарета (sigareta) (see there for further descendants)
- → Sicilian: sicaretta
- → Swedish: cigarett
See also
- allume-cigare
- allumette
- briquet
- cartouche
- cendrier
- fumée
- fumer
- fumeur
- mégot
- paquet
- rouler
Further reading
- “cigarette” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “cigarette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.