corisco

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese corisco (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin coruscus (“flashing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈɾisko̝/

Noun

corisco m (plural coriscos)

1. blizzard; storm
2. (archaic) lightning
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:

     Et alí cresçerõ toruões et coriscos et rrelánpagos tã grandes et tã brauos et tã desmesurados que semellaua que todo o mũdo quiría peresçer.

     And there grew such large thunders and lightning and flashes so wild and so boundless, that it seemed that the whole world wanted to perish

Derived terms

• Corisca
• Coriscada
• Curiscada
• Escoriscada

References

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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “corisco”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “corisco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN