isca

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See also: -isca and Isca

Galician

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ēsca.

Alternative forms

Noun

isca f (plural iscas)

  1. 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
  2. bait
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Perhaps from liscar.

Pronunciation

Interjection

isca

  1. shoo!
    Synonyms: gache, xo

Etymology 3

Verb

isca

  1. inflection of iscar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

Portuguese

isca (bait)
iscas (dish)

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese ysca, from Latin ēsca (bait), from edō (to eat).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

isca f (plural iscas)

  1. (chiefly fishing) bait (substance used in catching fish or other animals)
    Synonyms: ardil, chamariz, cevo, engodo, isco
  2. (by extension) lure; bait (something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure)
    Synonyms: chamariz, engodo
  3. (cooking, Portugal, chiefly in the plural) a dish made with very thin slices of liver
  4. a bite-sized piece of fried meat, usually fish
  5. tinder; charcloth (combustible material in a tinderbox)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

isca

  1. inflection of iscar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. 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

  1. to start, to cause

Conjugation