cisco
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
- “cisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cisco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cisco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cisco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (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
- Hyphenation: cis‧co
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
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθisko/ [ˈθis.ko]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014