esca

Etymology

From Latin ēsca (“bait”).

Noun

esca (plural escae)

1. (ichthyology) fleshy growth from an anglerfish's head that acts as a lure

Anagrams

• ACEs, ASCE, Aces, CASE, Case, Ceas, SCEA, aces, aesc, case, æsc

Alternative forms

• yesca

Etymology

From Latin ēsca.

Noun

esca f (plural esques)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin ēsca.

Noun

esca f (plural esques)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)
2. bait (substance used in catching fish)

Alternative forms

• isca

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeska̝/

Noun

esca f (plural escas)

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

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

Etymology

From Latin ēsca.

Pronunciation

• ésca
• IPA^(key): /ˈeska/

Noun

esca f (plural esche)

1. bait, lure
2. tinder

Verb

esca

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of uscire
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of uscire
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of uscire
4. third-person singular imperative of uscire

Anagrams

• asce
• case
• seca

Etymology

From edō (“eat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈeːs.ka/

Noun

ēsca f (genitive ēscae); first declension

1. food; dish prepared for the table
2. bait

References

• esca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• esca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• esca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• esca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ēsca^[1]. Compare the inherited doublet yesca.

Noun

esca f (plural escas)

1. (dated) bait (substance used in catching fish)

References