isca

See also: -isca and Isca

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• esca

Noun

isca f (plural iscas)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)
   • c. 1300, 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
• isco
• isqueiro

Etymology 2

Perhaps from liscar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

Interjection

isca

1. shoo!

   Synonyms: gache, xo

Etymology 3

Verb

isca

1. inflection of iscar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ysca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “ysca”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “isca”, 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), “isca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “isca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

isca (etymology 1, sense 1)

iscas (etymology 1, sense 3)

isca (etymology 1, sense 4)

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈiʃ.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈis.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈiʃ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -iskɐ, (Portugal) -iʃkɐ
• Hyphenation: is‧ca

Noun

isca f (plural iscas)

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

   Synonyms: ardil, chamariz, cevo, engodo, isco

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

   Synonyms: chamariz, engodo

5. (cooking, Portugal, chiefly in the plural) a dish made with very thin slices of liver
7. (cooking, Porto, chiefly in the plural) fried codfish coated in batter

   Synonyms: patanisca, isca de bacalhau, laroca

8. a bite-sized piece of fried meat, usually fish
9. tinder; charcloth (combustible material in a tinderbox)

Derived terms

• iscar
• isqueiro
• morder a isca

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

isca

1. inflection of iscar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “isca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “isca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025, →ISBN
• “isca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian искам (iskam).

Verb

a isca (third-person singular present iscă, past participle iscat, third-person subjunctive iște) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive, now typically of conflicts) to spark
2. (reflexive, now typically of conflicts) to arise

Conjugation

    conjugation of isca (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a isca
gerund			iscând
past participle			iscat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	isc	iști	iscă	iscăm	iscați	iscă
	imperfect	iscam	iscai	isca	iscam	iscați	iscau
	simple perfect	iscai	iscași	iscă	iscarăm	iscarăți	iscară
	pluperfect	iscasem	iscaseși	iscase	iscaserăm	iscaserăți	iscaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să isc	să iști	să iște	să iscăm	să iscați	să iște
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		iscă			iscați
	negative		nu isca			nu iscați