Isca

See also: isca and -isca

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *Uɨsk (“Usk, Exe”), conjectured to mean "full of fish".

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka/, [ˈɪs̠kä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka/, [ˈiskä]

Proper noun

Isca f sg (genitive Iscae); first declension

1. River Usk
2. (historical) Short for Isca Augusta, Caerleon on the Usk
3. River Exe
4. (historical) Short for Isca Dumnoniorum, Exeter on the Exe

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Isca
Genitive	Iscae
Dative	Iscae
Accusative	Iscam
Ablative	Iscā
Vocative	Isca

Derived terms

• Isca Augusta
• Isca Dumnoniorum
• Isca Silurum
• Iscanus

 

References

• “Isca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly