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Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Uncertain, perhaps pre-Roman. Compare Italian lisca (“fishbone”), Piedmontese lesca (“slice”).
Noun
llesca f (plural llesques)
- slice
1934, Joan Puig i Ferreter, Camins de França:Vaig anar a l'armari, em vaig tallar una grossa llesca de pa, i amb quatre mossades, goludament, rabiosament, em vaig empassar el meu dinar, que estava intacte.- I went to the cupboard, I cut myself a thick slice of bread, and with four bites, greedily, furiously, I swallowed my lunch, intact.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “interior slice of bread”): crostó
Derived terms
Further reading
- “llesca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “llesca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “llesca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*lisca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 374
Etymology 2
Verb
llesca
- inflection of llescar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Noun
llesca f (plural llescas)
- (slang) weed, dope (marijuana)