cisco

See also: Cisco

English

Etymology

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

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 ()
• lake cisco, northern cisco, lake herring ()
• deepwater cisco ()
• blackfin cisco ()
• shortnose cisco ()
• shortjaw cisco ()
• least cisco ()
• Bering cisco ()
• Arctic cisco ()
• sardine cisco ()
• European cisco (Coregonus albula, , , "")
• Stechlin cisco ()

Translations

fish

• Armenian: սիգ (hy) (sig)
• Bulgarian: рипус m (ripus), сиг m (sig)
• Finnish: siika (fi), amerikanmuikku
• Greek: κορηγώνιος m (korigónios)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cisco”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• 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. (figurative) disorder

Derived terms

• cisca
• ciscallada
• ciscallar
• ciscallo
• ciscar

References

• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cinisculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ku/, /ˈsiʃ.ku/
• 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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθisko/ [ˈθis.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsisko/ [ˈsis.ko]

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. coaldust
2. culm

Derived terms

• ciscar

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001