cisco
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See also: Cisco
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪskəʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɪskəʊ
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]- longjaw cisco (Coregonus alpenae)
- lake cisco, northern cisco, lake herring (Coregonus artedi)
- deepwater cisco (Coregonus johannae)
- blackfin cisco (Coregonus nigripinnis)
- shortnose cisco (Coregonus reighardi)
- shortjaw cisco (Coregonus zenithicus)
- least cisco (Coregonus sardinella)
- Bering cisco (Coregonus laurettae)
- Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis)
- sardine cisco (Coregonus sardinella)
- European cisco (Coregonus albula, Coregonus trybomi, Coregonus lucinensis, "Coregonus vandesius")
- Stechlin cisco (Coregonus fontanae)
Translations
[edit]fish
References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cisco m (plural ciscos)
- brushwood; little fragment of firewood
- chaff
- coaldust; soot
- Synonym: feluxe
- culm (coal)
- (figurative) disorder
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cisco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cisco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Latin cinisculum.
Noun
[edit]cisco m (plural ciscos)
- speck (tiny particle)
- Um cisco entrou no meu olho.
- A speck got into my eye.
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]cisco
Further reading
[edit]- “cisco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “cisco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθisko/ [ˈθis.ko]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsisko/ [ˈsis.ko]
- Rhymes: -isko
- Syllabification: cis‧co
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]cisco m (plural ciscos)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]cisco
Further reading
[edit]- “cisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- en:Freshwater whitefish
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