esca

See also: ESCA, ésca, and -esca

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Latin ēsca (“bait”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛskə/

Noun

esca (plural escae)

1. (ichthyology) fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure

Synonyms

• illicium

Translations

growth on anglerfish's head

• Finnish: onki (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Anagrams

• ACEs, ASCE, Aces, CASE, Case, Ceas, SCEA, aces, aesc, case, æsc

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Asturian

Alternative forms

• yesca

Etymology

From Latin ēsca.

Noun

esca f (plural esques)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin ēsca.

Noun

esca f (plural esques)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)
2. bait (substance used in catching fish)

Synonyms

• (bait): esquer

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Galician

Alternative forms

• isca

Etymology

Circa 1300. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ēsca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeska̝/

Noun

esca f (plural escas)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)
   • c1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 220:

     y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca, et seu pedernal em el

     there he found, together with that bow, a tinderbox, with its lighter, its tinder, and its flint inside it

2. bait

Derived terms

• chisqueiro
• esqueiro

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ysca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• “esca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin ēsca.

Pronunciation

• ésca
• IPA^(key): /ˈeska/

Noun

esca f (plural esche)

1. bait, lure
2. (figuratively) decoy
3. tinder

Derived terms

• innescare

Etymology 2

Verb

esca

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of uscire
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of uscire
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of uscire
4. third-person singular imperative of uscire

Anagrams

• asce
• case
• seca

Further reading

• esca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

From edō (“eat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈeːs.ka/, [ˈeːs̠kä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈes.ka/, [ˈɛskä]

Noun

ēsca f (genitive ēscae); first declension

1. food; dish prepared for the table
2. bait

Declension

Note that there is the alternative form, ēscās, for the genitive singular, ēscae. First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ēsca	ēscae
Genitive	ēscae	ēscārum
Dative	ēscae	ēscīs
Accusative	ēscam	ēscās
Ablative	ēscā	ēscīs
Vocative	ēsca	ēscae

Synonyms

• (bait): cibus
• (food): alimentum, cibāria, cibus, pulmentum

Derived terms

• escālis
• escārius
• escātilis

• escifer
• esculentus

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: eascã, iascã, yeascã, iasche
  • Romanian: iască
• Italian: esca
• Lombard: lisca
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: esca
• Old French: esche
  • Middle French: esche
    • French: esche, aiche, èche
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: esca, yesca
  • Leonese: hisca
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: esca
  • Occitan: esca, esco
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: esca, isca
  • Portuguese: isca
• Old Spanish: yesca, iesca
  • Spanish: yesca
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: lescje
  • Romansch: estga, escha
• Sicilian: isca
• Venetian: esca, lesca
• → Albanian: eshkë
• → English: esca
• → Greek: ίσκα (íska)
• → Spanish: esca

References

• “esca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “esca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• esca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• esca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēsca. Compare the inherited doublet yesca.

Noun

esca f (plural escas)

1. (dated) bait (substance used in catching fish)

Synonyms

• cebo

Related terms

• yesca