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The study of the history of words including their origins and the changes they've undergone through time.

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Are there Romance parallel descendants to Italian "cicalare" and Romanian "cicăli(re)"?

Spanish and Portuguese have the word cigarra, which also refers to the insect and ultimately comes from Latin (there is debate whether the Portuguese word is native or replaced its native word with th …
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