risco

Unknown. Compare Portuguese risco, Spanish riesgo and English risk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisko̝/

risco m (plural riscos)

1. danger, risk

   Synonym: perigo

• arriscado
• arriscar

Attested since the 14th century. Back-formation from riscar, itself probably from Latin resecō (“cut”).

An Iron Age drawing made with riscos. Castro de Formigueiros, Galicia

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisko̝/

risco m (plural riscos)

1. stroke (a line or drawn with a pen or other writing implement)

   Synonym: trazo

   1. a strikethrough

      Synonym: raia

2. ridge

   Synonym: soma

3. crease

   Synonym: dobrez

4. drawing
5. tic-tac-toe

• risco de Salomón

• riscar

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.sko/
• Rhymes: -isko
• Hyphenation: rì‧sco

risco m (plural rischi)

1. Old Italian form of rischio

• → Catalan: risc
• → Galician: risco
• Italian: rischio, risico
• → Middle French: risque
  • French: risque
    • → English: risk
    • → Romanian: risc
• → Occitan: risc
• → Portuguese: risco

• Corsi, Sciro, corsi, criso-, ricsò, scori, sorci

riscō

1. dative/ablative singular of riscus

• Homophone: Risco
• Hyphenation: ris‧co

Deverbal from riscar.

risco m (plural riscos)

1. line (threadlike mark of writing instrument)

   Synonyms: linha, rabisco, risca, traçado, traço

2. scratch (shallow cut on a surface)

   Synonyms: risca, sulco

3. a draft of a blueprint

   Synonym: esboço

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

risco m (plural riscos)

1. (uncountable) risk (likelihood of a negative outcome)

   Synonym: perigo

2. a risky situation

risco

1. first-person singular present indicative of riscar

From a Back-formation from riscar or from Vulgar Latin *resecum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisko/ [ˈris.ko]
• Rhymes: -isko
• Syllabification: ris‧co

risco m (plural riscos)

1. (Latin America) crack
2. cliff

   Synonyms: acantilado, precipicio

3. crag

• “risco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014