pescetarian
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Etymology edit
Blend of Italian pesce (“fish”) + vegetarian.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌpɛskɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/, /ˌpɛsɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/, /ˌpɛskəˈtɛəɹi.ən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌpɛskɪˈtɛɹi.ən/, /ˌpɛsɪˈtɛɹi.ən/, /ˌpɛskəˈtɛɹi.ən/
- Rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
- Hyphenation: pes‧ce‧ta‧ri‧an
Noun edit
pescetarian (plural pescetarians)
- A person who consumes no animal flesh with the exception of fish or seafood. [c. 1990]
- 1999 March 26, Jessica R. Shawl, “‘Vegetarians’???”, in rec.food.veg[2] (Usenet), message-ID <36FBD2DB.8237C15@scdt.intel.com>:
- I'm curious what you do when you encounter a friend, family member, whoever who claims to be a "vegetarian who eats fish". It *really* bothers me when this happens because it contributes to the assumption that I eat fish and I don't, because I am a vegetarian. I feel like it gives all vegetarians a bad name. Do you correct them? Do you not bother? And how do you correct them? I was thinking that saying something like "oh, you mean your[sic] a pescetarian" would be ok and give them the appropriate term. Speaking of which, how is "pescetarian" pronounced?
- 2004, Pierre Jean Cousin, Kirsten Hartvig, The Complete Guide to Nutritional Health: More Than 600 Foods and Recipes for Overcoming Illness and Boosting your Immunity, London: Duncan Baird Publishers, →ISBN, page 149:
- Eat for Immunity follows a plant-based approach to improving immunity that is relevant to every style of eating—carnivore, pescetarian, vegetarian and vegan.
- 2006, Ayun Halliday, Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste, Emeryville, Calif.: Seal Press, →ISBN, page 151:
- "Why don't you just tell people you're a pescetarian?" a vegetarian I met recently asked, cutting me off midapologia for my beat-up leather jacket and my callow habit of behaving as if fish are neurologically no more complex than eggplants.
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See also edit
- flexitarian
- meatatarian
- piscivore (scientific)
- pollotarian
- seagan
- vegetarian
Adjective edit
pescetarian (not comparable)
- Of or relating to pescetarianism.
- pescetarian diet
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References edit
- ^ “pescetarian, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “pescatarian, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
[1], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-29.
Further reading edit
pescetarian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Paul McFedries (2003 September 17) “pescetarian”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited, retrieved 4 June 2017.
- Google Trends comparison of the usage of the 3 spelling variations (pescatarian, pescetarian, and piscetarian), using data from web searches (globally) of each variation since January 2004 (start of dataset) to current date.
