# cisco
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɪskəʊ/
* Rhymes: -ɪskəʊ

### Noun

cisco (plural ciscos or ciscoes)
* 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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “cisco”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* 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 *sexskā (“rushes, sedge”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈθisko̝/, (western) /ˈsisko̝/

### Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)
* brushwood; little fragment of firewood
    Synonyms: arume, frouma
* chaff
* coaldust; soot
    Synonym: feluxe
* culm (coal)
* (figurative) disorder

#### Derived terms

* cisca
* ciscallada
* ciscallar
* ciscallo
* ciscar

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cisco”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cisco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cisco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cisco”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 331

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsis.ku/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsis.ku/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈsiʃ.ku/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsis.ko/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsiʃ.ku/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -isku, (Portugal) -iʃku
* Hyphenation: cis‧co

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cinisculum.

#### Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)
* speck (tiny particle)
    Um cisco entrou no meu olho.A speck got into my eye.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cisco
* first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

### Further reading

* “cisco”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “cisco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθisko/ [ˈθis.ko]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsisko/ [ˈsis.ko]
* Rhymes: -isko
* Syllabification: cis‧co

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

cisco m (plural ciscos)
* coaldust
* culm

##### Derived terms

* ciscar
* hacer cisco

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cisco
* first-person singular present indicative of ciscar

### Further reading

* “cisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10