llesca

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈʎɛs.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈʎəs.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈʎes.ka]

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Etymology 1

Uncertain, perhaps pre-Roman. Compare Italian lisca (“fishbone”), Piedmontese lesca (“slice”).

Noun

llesca f (plural llesques)

1. slice
   • 1934, Joan Puig i Ferreter, Camins de França:

     Vaig anar a l'armari, em vaig tallar una grossa llesca de pa, i amb quatre mossades, goludament, rabiosament, em vaig empassar el meu dinar, que estava intacte.

     I went to the cupboard, I cut myself a thick slice of bread, and with four bites, greedily, furiously, I swallowed my lunch, intact.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “interior slice of bread”): crostó

Derived terms

• fer la llesca
• llescar

Further reading

• “llesca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “llesca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “llesca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*lisca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 374

Etymology 2

Verb

llesca

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeska/ [ˈɟ͡ʝes.ka]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeska/ [ˈɟ͡ʝes.ka] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʎeska/ [ˈʎes.ka] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeska/ [ˈʃes.ka] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʒeska/ [ˈʒes.ka] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -eska
• Syllabification: lles‧ca

Noun

llesca f (plural llescas)

1. (slang) weed, dope (marijuana)