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See also: Piscis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *piskis, from Proto-Indo-European *péysks. Cognates include Old Irish íasc, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks) and Old English fisċ (English fish).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpis.kis/, [ˈpɪs̠kɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpiʃ.ʃis/, [ˈpiʃːis]
Noun
[edit]piscis m (genitive piscis); third declension
Usage notes
[edit]The singular form may also be used as a collective noun.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | piscis | piscēs |
Genitive | piscis | piscium |
Dative | piscī | piscibus |
Accusative | piscem | piscēs piscīs |
Ablative | pisce | piscibus |
Vocative | piscis | piscēs |
Derived terms
[edit]- Piscis (“Piscis Austrinus (constellation)”, literally “the Fish”)
- Piscēs (“Pisces (constellation)”, literally “the Fishes”)
- *porcopiscis m (“(i.e., porcus + piscis) pig-fish, porpoise”) (Vulgar Latin)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants of piscis
- Aragonese: pex
- Aromanian: peashti, peashte, peshti
- Catalan: peix
- Corsican: pesciu
- Dalmatian: pasc, pask
- Friulian: pes
- Istriot: piso
- Istro-Romanian: peșt
- Italian: pesce
- Ladin: pësc
- Ligurian: péscio
- Lombard: pès
- Megleno-Romanian: peaști
- Neapolitan: pesce
- Occitan: peis
- Old French: poisson, peison, peisoun, peisun, peisson, peissoun, peissun, pescion, poissoun (see there for further descendants)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: peixe, pexe, peyxe
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Old Spanish: pez
- Spanish: pez
- Piedmontese: pess
- Romagnol: pèṣ
- Romanian: pește
- Romansch: pèsch, pesch (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader), pestg (Sutsilvan)
- Sardinian: pisci (Campidanese), pische (Logudorese, Nuorese)
- Sicilian: pisci
- Venetan: pése, pésse, pisse
- → Albanian: peshk
- → Proto-Brythonic: *pɨsk (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- “piscis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “piscis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- piscis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- piscis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
- to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
Spanish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]piscis (invariable)
- born under the zodiac sign Pisces
Further reading
[edit]- “piscis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- la:Fish
- la:Foods
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish indeclinable adjectives