Where does “Cisco” come from?

Cisco is a shortening of San Francisco, borrowed from Spanish San Francisco, a place name of religious origin meaning "Saint Francis."

Cisco (English): Cisco Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of routers, switches, and other networking and communications equipment

Definitions

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

Ancestry of “Cisco”, step by step

Cisco traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French ciscoette

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchciscoetteSiscowet
2Ojibwesiscowetcooks itself

via English San Francisco

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSan FranciscoThe indigenous people of the city of the same name, also known as the Ramaytush
2SpanishSan FranciscoSaint Francis
Every word from Ojibwe siscowetEvery word from French ciscoette
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