cisco

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

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

cisco (plural ciscos or ciscoes)

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

• cisco (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Coregonus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Coregonus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “cisco”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “cisco”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• The Great Minnesota Fish Book

• Socci

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”).

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

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. brushwood; little fragment of firewood

   Synonyms: arume, frouma

2. chaff
3. coaldust; soot

   Synonym: feluxe

4. culm (coal)
5. (figurative) disorder

• cisca
• ciscallada
• ciscallar
• ciscallo
• ciscar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cisco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cisco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cisco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -isku, (Portugal) -iʃku
• Hyphenation: cis‧co

Inherited from Latin cinisculum (“small amount of ash”), a diminutive of cinis (“ashes”).

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. speck (tiny particle)

   Um cisco entrou no meu olho.

   A speck got into my eye.

cisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

• “cisco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cisco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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

Of uncertain origin, but possibly derived from Latin ciccum (“worthless object”).

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. coaldust
2. culm

cisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

• “cisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10