FromLatinēsca(“bait”).
esca (pluralescae)
- (ichthyology) Thefleshygrowth from ananglerfish'shead thatacts as alure for itsprey.
- (phytopathology) Afungaldiseaseafflictinggrapes.
growth on anglerfish's head
FromGalicianescá, from HispanicLate Latinscala(“bowl”) attested inIsidore of Seville, probably fromSuevic, fromProto-Germanic*skēlō(“bowl”). Cognate withGermanSchale andDutchschaal.
esca (pluralescas)
- (historical) AtraditionalGalicianunit ofdry measure,equivalent to about 6–9Ldepending on thesubstancemeasured.
- (historical) Akind ofmeasuring cuponceused formeasuring escas ofgrain.
- ACEs,ASCE,Aces,CASE,Case,Ceas,SCEA,aces,aesc,case,æsc
FromLatinēsca.
esca f (pluralesques)
- tinder(dry plants used to light a fire)
Inherited fromLatinēsca.
esca f (pluralesques)
- amadou(substance derived from thehoof fungus)
- tinder(dry plants used to light a fire)
- (figurative)spur,impetus,stimulus
- Synonym:incentiu
- bait(substance used in catching fish)
- Synonym:esquer
esca
- inflection ofescar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Circa 1300. FromOld Galician-Portuguese, fromLatinēsca.
esca f (pluralescas)
- tinder(dry plants used to light a fire)
c.1300, R. Martínez López,General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page220:y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et suaysca, et seu pedernal em el- there he found, together with that bow, a tinderbox, with its lighter, itstinder, and its flint inside it
- bait
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ysca”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ysca”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esca”, inDicionario 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), “esca”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esca”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN
FromLatinēsca.
esca f (pluralesche)
- (obsolete) (animal)food
- (obsolete, uncommon, also figurative)food
- bait,lure(anything used to catch animals)
- (figurative)bait,lure(anything that allures or attracts)
- (figurative)decoy
- tinder
- esca in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
esca
- inflection ofuscire:
- first/second/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
ForProto-Italic*ēsskā,Proto-Indo-European*h₁ēd-s-keh₂, from*h₁ed-(“eat”), the root ofedō(“eat”). Judging byLithuanianėskà(“food, fodder”), the long vowel is of PIE origin, but despite this often cited as an example of Lachmann's lengthening.[1]
ēsca f (genitiveēscae);first declension
- (collective)food
- Synonyms:cibus,alimentum,vīctus,cibāria
- anindividualserving, adish
- Synonyms:ferculum,epulum
- (collective)fodder
- Synonym:pābulum
- (collective)bait
- (collective)fuel, especiallyfirewood
- Synonyms:māteria,nūtrīmentum
- (collective)kindling,tinder
- Synonyms:fōmentum,nūtrīmentum
First-declension noun.
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- “esca”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “esca”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "esca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- esca inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Borrowed fromLatinēsca.[1] Compare the inherited doubletyesca.
esca f (pluralescas)
- (dated)bait(substance used in catching fish)
- Synonym:cebo
