cisco

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English

Coregonus artedi

Etymology

From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪskəʊ/
Rhymes: -ɪskəʊ

Noun

cisco (plural ciscos or ciscoes)

Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.

Derived terms

Translations

fish

Armenian: սիգ (hy) (sig)
Bulgarian: рипус m (ripus), сиг m (sig)
Finnish: siika (fi), amerikanmuikku
Greek: κορηγώνιος m (korigónios)
Russian: сиг (ru) m (sig)
Swedish: sik (sv) c

References

cisco (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Coregonus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Coregonus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
“cisco”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“cisco”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
The Great Minnesota Fish Book

Anagrams

Socci

Galician

Etymology

Unknown. According to Josep Coromines, unlikely from Latin cinisculum, which could not explain Spanish cisco, which was attested first; perhaps from Proto-Celtic *sexskā (“rushes, sedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈθisko̝/, (western) /ˈsisko̝/

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

brushwood; little fragment of firewood
Synonyms: arume, frouma
chaff
coaldust; soot
Synonym: feluxe
culm (coal)
(figurative) disorder

Derived terms

References

“cisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“cisco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“cisco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cisco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ku/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʃ.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ko/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʃ.ku/

Hyphenation: cis‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cinisculum.

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

speck (tiny particle)
Um cisco entrou no meu olho.
A speck got into my eye.

Etymology 2

Verb

cisco

first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθisko/
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsisko/
Rhymes: -isko
Syllabification: cis‧co

Etymology 1

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

cisco

first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

Further reading

“cisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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