different between cisco vs pisco

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

Borrowed from Spanish, from the name of the city Pisco, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

Noun

pisco (countable and uncountable, plural piscos)

1. A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

Translations

Derived terms

• pisco sour

Further reading

• pisco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• COIPs, Picos

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from the name of the city Pisco, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

Noun

pisco m (plural piscos)

1. pisco

Galician

Etymology

From Back-formation from piscar (“to blink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pisk?]

Noun

pisco m (plural piscos)

1. robin, European robin (Erithacus rubecula)

   Synonyms: paporroibo, paifoco

2. a bit

   Synonym: chisco

References

• “pisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pisco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pisco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Verb

pisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of piscar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pisko/, [?pis.ko]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

Noun

pisco m (plural piscos, feminine pisca, feminine plural piscas)

1. (Colombia, Venezuela) turkey (bird)

   Synonyms: pavo, (Mexico, Central America) chompipe, (Mexico, Central America) guajolote, (Cuba) guanajo

Etymology 2

From the name of the city Pisco, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

Noun

pisco m (plural piscos)

1. pisco

References