different between juniper vs cisco

English

Etymology

Late Middle English junyper, juniperus, from Latin i?niperus (“juniper-tree”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?un?p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?un?p?/, [?d??un??p?]
• Hyphenation: ju?ni?per

Noun

juniper (countable and uncountable, plural junipers)

1. Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
2. One of a number of coniferous trees which resemble junipers.
3. (Britain, slang, archaic) Gin.
   • 1834, Young Hearts: A Novel by a Recluse. With a Preface by Miss Jane Porter (page 106)

     […] I said you didn't like them ere strong liquors, but if he warn't particular, I was sure you would pledge him in a glass of juniper, for I had always made you, since we had been man and vife^[sic], take a drop afore you went to market, to keep cold out.

Derived terms

Related terms

• Juniperites

Translations

Further reading

• juniper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle English

Noun

juniper

1. Alternative form of junyper

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.