Common name | Corégone cisco |
Language | French |
Type | Vernacular |
Official trade name | No |
Rank | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
Country | France |
Locality | |
Ref. | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1990 |
Life stage | juveniles and adults |
Sex | females and males |
Core | primary lexeme |
1st modifier | morphology |
2nd modifier | |
Remarks | 'Corégone', from Latin name 'Coregonus', i.e., angle-eye, coined by Artedi from the Greek words meaning pupil of the eye and angle (Ref. 1998); 'cisco' is a short form of Canadian French term for this type of salmonid, 'ciscoette' (p. 243 in Ref. 11978). |