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esca

See also: ESCA, ésca, and -esca

English

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Etymology 1

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From Latin ēsca (“bait”).

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esca (plural escae)

  1. (ichthyology) The fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure for its prey.
  2. (phytopathology) A fungal disease afflicting grapes.
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Etymology 2

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From Galician escá, from Hispanic Late Latin scala (“bowl”) attested in Isidore of Seville, probably from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *skēlō (“bowl”). Cognate with German Schale and Dutch schaal.

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esca (plural escas)

  1. (historical) A traditional Galician unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 6–9 L depending on the substance measured.
  2. (historical) A kind of measuring cup once used for measuring escas of grain.
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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin ēsca.

Noun

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esca f (plural esques)

  1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin ēsca.

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esca f (plural esques)

  1. amadou (substance derived from the hoof fungus)
  2. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)
  3. (figurative) spur, impetus, stimulus
    Synonym: incentiu
  4. bait (substance used in catching fish)
    Synonym: esquer
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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esca

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

Galician

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Etymology

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

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esca f (plural escas)

  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

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin ēsca.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈe.ska/
  • Rhymes: -eska
  • Hyphenation: é‧sca

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esca f (plural esche)

  1. (obsolete) (animal) food
  2. (obsolete, uncommon, also figurative) food
  3. bait, lure (anything used to catch animals)
  4. (figurative) bait, lure (anything that allures or attracts)
  5. (figurative) decoy
  6. tinder
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Further reading

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  • esca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Verb

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esca

  1. inflection of uscire:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Latin

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For Proto-Italic *ēsskā, Proto-Indo-European *h₁ēd-s-keh₂, from *h₁ed- (“eat”), the root of edō (“eat”). Judging by Lithuanian ėskà (“food, fodder”), the long vowel is of PIE origin, but despite this often cited as an example of Lachmann's lengthening.[1]

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ēsca f (genitive ēscae); first declension

  1. (collective) food
    Synonyms: cibus, alimentum, vīctus, cibāria
    1. an individual serving, a dish
      Synonyms: ferculum, epulum
  2. (collective) fodder
    Synonym: pābulum
    1. (collective) bait
  3. (collective) fuel, especially firewood
    Synonyms: māteria, nūtrīmentum
    1. (collective) kindling, tinder
      Synonyms: fōmentum, nūtrīmentum

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ēsca ēscae
Genitive ēscae ēscārum
Dative ēscae ēscīs
Accusative ēscam ēscās
Ablative ēscā ēscīs
Vocative ēsca ēscae

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References

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  1. ^ "ėska" in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė

Further reading

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  • “esca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “esca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • esca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • esca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ēsca.[1] Compare the inherited doublet yesca.

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esca f (plural escas)

  1. (dated) bait (substance used in catching fish)
    Synonym: cebo
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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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