isca

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

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

• esca

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

Perhaps from liscar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

isca

1. shoo!

   Synonyms: gache, xo

isca

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

• “ysca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ysca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

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

• Hyphenation: is‧ca

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 in the 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)

• iscar
• isqueiro
• morder a isca

isca

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

Borrowed from Bulgarian искам (iskam).

a isca (third-person singular present iscă, past participle iscat) 1st conj.

1. to start, to cause