cisco

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

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

cisco (plural ciscos or ciscoes)

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

• 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)

• 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

• Socci

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”).[1][2]

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

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

• cisca
• ciscallada
• ciscallar
• ciscallo
• ciscar

• “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.

• Hyphenation: cis‧co

Inherited from Latin cinisculum.

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. speck (tiny particle)

   Um cisco entrou no meu olho.

   A speck got into my eye.

cisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

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

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. coaldust
2. culm

cisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

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