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English

Etymology

chemic (“alchemy”) +? -al (“related to”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?m'?k-?l, IPA^(key): /?k?m?k?l/
• Rhymes: -?m?k?l

Adjective

chemical (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to chemistry.

2. Of or relating to a material or processes not commonly found in nature or in a particular product.
3. (obsolete) Of or relating to alchemy.

Derived terms

• technochemical

Translations

Further reading

• Chemistry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

chemical (plural chemicals)

1. (chemistry, sciences) Any specific chemical element or chemical compound or alloy.

2. (colloquial) An artificial chemical compound.

3. (slang) An addictive drug.

Usage notes

• The noun is frequently used in a slang and more specific non-technical way (2nd and 3rd definition) by the general public. Chemists and those who understand chemistry may gravitate toward the first, but the term "substance" is preferred usage.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• alchemical
• chemist
• chemistry

See also

• molecule
• reagent

Anagrams

• Michalec, alchemic

English

Etymology

From Latin ?sca (“bait”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sk?/

Noun

esca (plural escae)

1. (ichthyology) fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure
2. (phytopathology) a fungal disease of grape sometimes called black measles of grape

Synonyms

• illicium

Translations

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Alternative forms

• yesca

Etymology

From Latin ?sca.

Noun

esca f (plural esques)

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin ?sca.

Noun

esca f (plural esques)

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

Synonyms

• (bait): esquer

Galician

Alternative forms

• isca

Etymology

Circa 1300. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin ?sca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eska?/

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

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

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin ?sca.

Pronunciation

• ésca
• IPA^(key): /?es.ka/

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

Latin

Etymology

For Proto-Italic *?ssk?, Proto-Indo-European *h??d-s-keh?, from *h?ed- (“eat”), the root of ed? (“eat”). Judging by Lithuanian ?skà (“food, fodder”), the long vowel is of PIE origin, but despite this often cited as an example of Lachmann's lengthening.

Alternative forms

• isca (Medieval Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e?s.ka/, [?e?s?kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?es.ka/, [??sk?]

Noun

?sca f (genitive ?scae); first declension

1. (collective) food

   Synonyms: cibus, alimentum, v?ctus, cib?ria

   1. an individual serving, a dish

      Synonyms: ferculum, epulum

2. (collective) fodder

   Synonym: p?bulum

   1. (collective) bait
3. (collective) fuel, esp. firewood

   Synonyms: m?teria, n?tr?mentum

   1. (collective) kindling, tinder

      Synonyms: f?mentum, n?tr?mentum

Declension

First-declension noun.

• An archaic/dialectal form of the genitive singular, ?sc?s (for the classically usual ?scae) is cited by Priscian from Livius Andronicus.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “?sca” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “ed?”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN

Further reading

• 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, 1883–1887)
• esca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?sca. Compare the inherited doublet yesca.

Noun

esca f (plural escas)

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

   Synonym: cebo

Related terms

• yesca

References