corisco

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old 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
  • “corisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “corisco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “corisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “corisco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “corisco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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