cisco

See also: Cisco

English

Coregonus artedi

Etymology

From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪskəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɪskəʊ

Noun

cisco (plural ciscos or ciscoes)

1. Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.

Derived terms

• 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

fish

• Armenian: սիգ (hy) (sig)
• Bulgarian: рипус m (ripus), сиг m (sig)
• Finnish: siika (fi), amerikanmuikku
• Greek: κορηγώνιος m (korigónios)

• Russian: сиг (ru) m (sig)
• Swedish: sik (sv) c

References

• 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

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Galician

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθisko̝/, (western) /ˈsisko̝/

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. brushwood; little fragment of firewood

   Synonyms: arume, frouma

2. chaff
3. coaldust; soot

   Synonym: feluxe

4. culm (coal)
5. (figuratively) disorder

Derived terms

• cisca
• ciscallada
• ciscallar
• ciscallo
• ciscar

References

• “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.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cinisculum.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ku/, /ˈsiʃ.ku/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʃ.ku/
• Hyphenation: cis‧co

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. speck (tiny particle)

   Um cisco entrou no meu olho.

   A speck got into my eye.

Verb

cisco

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of ciscar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈθisko/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈsisko/

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. coaldust
2. culm

Derived terms

• ciscar

Further reading

• “cisco” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.