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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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
- cisco in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
- The Great Minnesota Fish Book
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)
- (figuratively) 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.
- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997) , “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]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin cinisculum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cisco m (plural ciscos)
- speck (tiny particle)
- Um cisco entrou no meu olho.
- A speck got into my eye.
Verb[edit]
cisco
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cisco m (plural ciscos)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “cisco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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