cigarette – English noun declension

English noun forms of cigarette

Noun: cigarette
Singularcigarette
Pluralcigarettes

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [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, page 46:]
  • 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. [1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:]
  • 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. [1989 January 27, Stephen Fry et al., “Doctor Tobacco”, in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Season 1, Episode 3:]
  • Grandma has an occasional cigarette, as well as Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Julie, and our kids give them crap about it. [2008, Thomas A. Liuzzo, One Last Cigarette: Memoirs of a 5-pack-a-day Smoker!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 20:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin cicādader.
3. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a
4. Spanish cigarra?
5. Spanish cigarrobor.
6. French cigare
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
8. Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
9. Late Latin -ittus
10. Old French -et
11. Middle French -et
12. French -etder.
13. French -ette
14. French cigarettebor.
15. English cigarette
16. Borrowed from French cigarette, from cigare, from Spanish cigarro + diminutive suffix -ette. By surface analysis, cigar + -ette. See: French Nouns 'cigarette', Spanish Nouns 'cigarro'.