isca

See also: -isca

Galician

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• esca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

Noun

isca f (plural iscas)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)
   • c1300, 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

• chisqueiro
• iscallo
• iscar
• isco
• isqueiro

 

Etymology 2

Perhaps from liscar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

Interjection

isca

1. shoo!

   Synonyms: gache, xo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ysca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ysca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “isca”, 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), “isca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “isca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Portuguese

isca (bait)

iscas (dish)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈiʃ.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈiʃ.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: is‧ca

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

• iscar
• isqueiro
• morder a isca

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Romanian

Etymology

From Bulgarian искам (iskam).

Verb

a isca (third-person singular present iscă, past participle iscat) 1st conj.

1. to start, to cause

Conjugation

    conjugation of isca (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a isca
gerund			iscând
past participle			iscat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	isc	iști	iscă	iscăm	iscați	iscă
	imperfect	iscam	iscai	isca	iscam	iscați	iscau
	simple perfect	iscai	iscași	iscă	iscarăm	iscarăți	iscară
	pluperfect	iscasem	iscaseși	iscase	iscaserăm	iscaserăți	iscaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să isc	să iști	să iște	să iscăm	să iscați	să iște
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		iscă			iscați
	negative		nu isca			nu iscați