isca

isca

See also: -isca

Galician

Etymology 1

Circa 1300. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin ēsca.

Alternative forms

• esca

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

Noun

isca f (plural iscas)

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
• iscallo
• iscar
• isqueiro

Etymology 2

Perhaps from liscar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

Interjection

isca

1. shoo!

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

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Portuguese

isca (bait)

iscas (dish)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ysca, from Latin ēsca (“bait”), from edō (“I eat”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis.kɐ/

Noun

isca f (plural iscas)

1. (chiefly fishing) bait (substance used in catching fish or other animals)

   Synonyms: ardil, chamariz, cevo, engodo, isco

2. (by extension) lure; bait (something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure)

   Synonyms: chamariz, engodo

3. (cooking, Portugal, chiefly plural) a dish made with very thin slices of liver
4. a bite-sized piece of fried meat, usually fish
5. tinder; charcloth (combustible material in a tinderbox)

Derived terms

• iscar
• isqueiro
• morder a isca