piscis

See also: Piscis

Latin

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piscis

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *piskis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-. Cognates include Old Irish íasc, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks) and Old English fisċ (English fish).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.kis/, [ˈpɪs̠kɪs̠]
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(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʃ.ʃis/, [ˈpiʃːis]

Noun

piscis m (genitive piscis); third declension

a fish

Usage notes

The singular form may also be used as a collective noun.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	piscis	piscēs
genitive	piscis	piscium
dative	piscī	piscibus
accusative	piscem	piscēs piscīs
ablative	pisce	piscibus
vocative	piscis	piscēs

Derived terms

Piscis (“Piscis Austrinus (constellation)”, literally “the Fish”)
Piscēs (“Pisces (constellation)”, literally “the Fishes”)

Related terms

Descendants

Eastern Romance:
- Aromanian: peashti, peashte, peshti, pescu
- Istro-Romanian: peșt
- Romanian: pește
Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: péscio
- Lombard: pès
- Piedmontese: pess
- Romagnol: pèṣ
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Corsican: pesciu
- Dalmatian: pasc, pask
- Istriot: piso
- Italian: pesce
- Neapolitan: pesce
- Sicilian: pisci
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: peix
- Occitan: peis
Oïl:
- Old French: peis
  - ⇒ Old French: poisson
    - Bourguignon: poisson
    - French: poisson
      - Haitian Creole: pwason
      - Louisiana Creole: pwason
      - Mauritian Creole: pwason
      - Seychellois Creole: pwason
    - Norman: peissoun
    - Picard: pichon
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    - Walloon: pexhon
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: pes
- Ladin: pësc
- Romansch: pesch, pèsch (Sursilvan), pestg (Sutsilvan), pèsch
Sardinian:
- Campidanese: pisci
- Logudorese: pische
- Nuorese: pische
Venetan: pése, pésse, pisse
West Iberian:
- Extremaduran: peci
- Navarro-Aragonese:
  - Aragonese: peix
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: pexe
  - Leonese: peixe
  - Mirandese: peç
- Old Galician-Portuguese: peyxe(Please either change this template to {{desc}} or insert a ====Descendants==== section in peyxe#Old Galician-Portuguese)
- Old Spanish: pez
  - Spanish: pez, peje
Non-Romance:
- → Albanian: peshk
- Western Britonnic Languages
  - → Breton: pesk
  - → Cornish: pysk, pesk (Revived Late Cornish)
  - → Welsh: pysgod

References

“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)

Spanish

Adjective

piscis (invariant)

Born under the zodiac sign Pisces.