pisco

Borrowed from Spanish pisco, from the name of the city Pisco, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

pisco (countable and uncountable, plural piscos)

1. A liquor distilled from grapes (a brandy) made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile. It is the most widely consumed spirit in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.

• pisco on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• COIPs, Picos

pisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of piscar

Borrowed from Spanish, from the name of the city Pisco, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

• IPA^(key): /pis.ko/
• Hyphenation: pis‧co

pisco m (plural piscos)

1. pisco

From Back-formation from piscar (“to blink”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisko/ [ˈpis̺.kʊ]
• Rhymes: -isko
• Hyphenation: pis‧co

pisco m (plural piscos)

1. robin, European robin (Erithacus rubecula)

   Synonyms: paporroibo, paifoco

2. a bit

   Synonym: chisco

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pisco”, 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), “pisco”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pisco”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

pisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of piscar

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -isku, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃku
• Hyphenation: pis‧co

pisco

1. first-person singular present indicative of piscar

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisko/ [ˈpis.ko]
• Rhymes: -isko
• Syllabification: pis‧co
• Homophone: pizco

Borrowed from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

pisco m (plural piscos, feminine pisca, feminine plural piscas)

1. (Colombia, Venezuela) turkey (bird)^[1][2]

   Synonyms: pavo, (Mexico, Central America) chompipe, (Mexico, Central America) guajolote, (Cuba) guanajo

From Pisco, a city of Peru, from Quechua pishku, pisqu.

pisco m (plural piscos)

1. pisco (a liquor distilled from grapes made in wine-producing regions of Peru and Chile)

• → English: pisco

• “pisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024