corisco

Galician

Alternative forms

  • escorisco, curisco

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese corisco ("lightning", 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin coruscus (flashing), perhaps influenced by a descendant of Proto-Germanic *skūrō (storm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [koˈɾiskʊ]

Noun

corisco m (plural coriscos)

  1. storm; downpour
  2. blizzard; cold wind
    Synonyms: escarabana, xistra
  3. (archaic) lightning
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 689:
      Et alí cresçerõ toruões et coriscos et rrelánpagos tã grandes et tã brauos et tã desmesurados que semellaua que todo o mũdo quiría peresçer.
      And there grew such large thunders and lightning and flashes so wild and so boundless, that it seemed that the whole world wanted to perish

Derived terms

  • Corisca
  • Coriscada
  • Curiscada
  • Escoriscada

References

  • corisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • scurisc” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • corisco” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • corisco” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • corisco” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • corisco” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈɾis.ku/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /koˈɾiʃ.ku/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈɾis.ko/

  • Hyphenation: co‧ris‧co

Etymology 1

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Noun

corisco m (plural coriscos)

  1. (meteorology) thunder-less, luminous atmospheric meteor
  2. electrical spark
  3. (Ceará) unexpected guest
  4. (Portugal) an inhabitant of the São Miguel Island in the Azores
    Synonym: micaelense

Adjective

corisco (feminine corisca, masculine plural coriscos, feminine plural coriscas)

  1. native of São Miguel Island

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

corisco

  1. first-person singular present indicative of coriscar

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