Show how cigarette got cot name naine how did the words cigar and cigarette get into the language it seems to be another old spa spanish nish cu custom s tom when tobacco was still a novelty the acme of hospitality 11 ty w was as for a host to offer guests small rolls of home grown tobacco for smoking usually with the explanation Es de mi ci garral it I 1 is S from my garden the word ci garral means an orchard or fruit garden stran strangers g t to 0 the spanish lang language U age carne came to regard the wo word rd ci carral cie arral as describing the gift rather than its place of origin the word was soon shortened to ci garro and finally to the english cigar the word cigarette means literally a small cigar |