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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “cisco”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• The Great Minnesota Fish Book

Anagrams

• Socci

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cisco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cisco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cisco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ku/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ku/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʃ.ku/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ko/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʃ.ku/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -isku, (Portugal) -iʃku
• Hyphenation: cis‧co

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cinisculum.

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. speck (tiny particle)

   Um cisco entrou no meu olho.

   A speck got into my eye.

Etymology 2

Verb

cisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

Further reading

• “cisco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “cisco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθisko/ [ˈθis.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsisko/ [ˈsis.ko]
• Rhymes: -isko
• Syllabification: cis‧co

Etymology 1

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. coaldust
2. culm

Derived terms

• ciscar
• hacer cisco

 

Etymology 2

Verb

cisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

Further reading

• “cisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10