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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
• cisco in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• The Great Minnesota Fish Book

Unknown. Unlikely from Latin cinisculum, which could not explain the 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
2. chaff
3. coaldust; soot
4. culm (coal)
5. (figuratively) 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.

From Latin cinisculum.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsis.ku/, /ˈsiʃ.ku/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsiʃ.ku/
• Hyphenation: cis‧co

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 (eu) present indicative of ciscar

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈθisko/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /ˈsisko/

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. coaldust
2. culm

• ciscar

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