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Galician
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese , from Latin ēsca .
Noun
isca f (plural iscas )
tinder ( dry plants used to light a fire )
c. 1300 , R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV , Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 220 :y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca , et seu pedernal em el there he found, together with that bow, a tinderbox, with its lighter, its tinder , and its flint inside it
bait
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Perhaps from liscar .
Pronunciation
Interjection
isca
shoo !
Synonyms: gache , xo
Etymology 3
Verb
isca
inflection of iscar :
third-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
References
Ernesto Xosé González Seoane , María Álvarez de la Granja , Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “ysca ”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “ysca ”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “isca ”, 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 ), “isca ”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “isca ”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega , →ISSN
Portuguese
isca (bait)
iscas (dish)
Etymology 1
From Old Galician-Portuguese ysca , from Latin ēsca ( “ bait ” ) , from edō ( “ to eat ” ) .
Pronunciation
Rhymes: ( Brazil ) -iskɐ , ( Portugal ) -iʃkɐ
Hyphenation: is‧ca
Noun
isca f (plural iscas )
( chiefly fishing ) bait ( substance used in catching fish or other animals )
Synonyms: ardil , chamariz , cevo , engodo , isco
( by extension ) lure ; bait ( something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure )
Synonyms: chamariz , engodo
( cooking , Portugal , chiefly in the plural ) a dish made with very thin slices of liver
a bite-sized piece of fried meat, usually fish
tinder ; charcloth ( combustible material in a tinderbox )
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
isca
inflection of iscar :
third-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Bulgarian искам ( iskam ) .
Verb
a isca (third-person singular present iscă , past participle iscat ) 1st conjugation
to start , to cause
Conjugation