different between cisco vs disco

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?sk??/
• Rhymes: -?sk??

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

References

• 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

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 *sexsk? (“rushes, sedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??isko?/, (western) /?sisko?/

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. (figuratively) disorder

Derived terms

• cisca
• ciscallada
• ciscallar
• ciscallo
• ciscar

References

• “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.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cinisculum.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sis.ku/, /?si?.ku/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?si?.ku/
• Hyphenation: cis?co

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. speck (tiny particle)

Verb

cisco

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of ciscar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??isko/, [??is.ko]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sisko/, [?sis.ko]

Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)

1. coaldust
2. culm

Derived terms

• ciscar

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From a shortening of discotheque, from French discothèque.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?sk??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?sko?/
• Rhymes: -?sk??
• Hyphenation: dis?co

Noun

disco (countable and uncountable, plural discos)

1. (countable, slightly dated) Clipping of discotheque, a nightclub for dancing.

   Synonyms: club, nightclub
2. (uncountable, music) A genre of dance music that was popular in the 1970s, characterized by elements of soul music with a strong Latin-American beat and often accompanied by pulsating lights.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

disco (third-person singular simple present discos, present participle discoing, simple past and past participle discoed)

1. (intransitive) To dance disco-style dances.
2. (intransitive) To go to discotheques.

Anagrams

• sodic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English disco. Equivalent to a shortening of discotheek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s.ko?/
• Hyphenation: dis?co

Noun

disco m (plural disco's, diminutive discootje n)

1. (countable) A discotheque, a nightclub.

   Synonym: discotheek

2. (uncountable) Disco (genre of dance music).

Derived terms

• discobal
• discodip
• discolamp
• discomuziek
• discozwemmen

Finnish

Noun

disco

1. Alternative form of disko

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin discus. Doublet of desco.

Pronunciation

• disco
• IPA^(key): /?dis.ko/
• Rhymes: -isko

Noun

disco m (plural dischi)

1. disc, disk
2. (anatomy) disc

   Synonym: disco intervertebrale

3. (athletics) discus

Related terms

Anagrams

• scodi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dis.ko?/, [?d??s?ko?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?dis.ko/, [?d?isk?]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *disk?, from Proto-Indo-European *di-d?-s?e/o-, reduplicated durative form of *de?- (“to take”). From the same root as doce?; unrelated to discipulus.

Cognates include Ancient Greek ??????? (dékhomai), whereas ?????? (daênai) is attributed to another root, *dens-, together with ?????? (deda?s), ????? (d?nea) and ??????? (didásk?).

Verb

disc? (present infinitive discere, perfect active didic?, supine discitum); third conjugation

1. I learn

2. (drama) I study, practice

Conjugation

Derived terms

• d?disc?
• ?disc?

Descendants

• ? Brythonic: [Term?]
  • Breton: deskiñ
  • Cornish: dyski
  • Welsh: dysgu

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

disc?

1. dative/ablative singular of discus

References

• disco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• disco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• disco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.

Polish

Etymology

From English disco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.sk?/

Noun

disco n (indeclinable)

1. disco, disco music
2. (slang) dance party

   Synonym: dyskoteka

Further reading

• disco in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• disco in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

disco m (plural discos)

1. disc (a thin, flat, circular plate)
2. (athletics) discus
3. (uncountable) disco (type of music)

Derived terms

• toca-discos

Related terms

• disquete

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?disko/, [?d?is.ko]

Etymology 1

Short for discoteca.

Noun

disco f (plural discos)

1. club, discotheque

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos). Compare English disc, dish, discus and dais.

Noun

disco m (plural discos)

1. disc, disk
2. phonograph record or disc
3. rotary dial
4. (athletics) discus

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Basque: disko

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

disco

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of discar.

Related terms

• discar

Further reading

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

• disko

Noun

disco n

1. a disco, a discotheque
2. disco; a type of music

Declension

Synonyms

• diskotek

Related terms

• diskotek, diskomusik, discomusik