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cisco¹

  • /ˈsɪskəʊ/ UK

Rhymes with -ɪskəʊ

Where it comes from

From French ciscoette (“siscowet”), from Ojibwe siscowet (“cooks itself”).

noun ciscos · ciscoes

  1. Any North American freshwater fish of certain species of the genus Coregonus that live in cold-water lakes.

Cisco²

  • /ˈsɪskəʊ/ UK
  • /ˈsɪskoʊ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪskəʊ

Where it comes from

Derived from San Francisco.

proper noun

  1. Cisco Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of routers, switches, and other networking and communications equipment.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: coregonus artedi, lake herring, whitefish, herring, sike, chevalier, release, aps, cef, router, sisco, routers, coregonine, coregonid, cory, common whitefish

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noun fish

Ελληνικάκορηγώνιος korigónios
Русскийсиг sig

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MLA

"cisco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cisco. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

cisco. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/cisco

Chicago

"cisco." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cisco.

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@misc{cisco_2026,
  title = {cisco},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cisco},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}