Galician edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Portuguese peixe.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpejʃe/ [ˈpej.ʃɪ], /ˈpejʃ/ [ˈpejʃ]
  • Rhymes: -ejʃe, -ejʃ
  • Hyphenation: pei‧xe

Noun edit

peixe m (plural peixes)

  1. a fish
  2. (uncountable) fish
    • 1517, María Ángela Comesaña Martínez (ed.), O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra. Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 161:
      paga Pedro de Santiago escudeiro en cada huun ano para sempre nove mrs. vellos por huna casa que esta enna Rua de Peyxe frigido
      Pedro de Santiago, squire, pays each year, forever, nine old coins, for a house that is in the Fried Fish Street
  3. trout
  4. (figurative) a mean person

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • peixe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • peyx” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • peixe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • peixe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • peixe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Leonese edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin piscem.

Noun edit

peixe m

  1. fish

References edit

Old Galician-Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

peixe m

  1. fish

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Galician: peixe
  • Portuguese: peixe (see there for further descendants)

Further reading edit

Portuguese edit

 
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpe(j).ʃi/ [ˈpe(ɪ̯).ʃi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpe(j).ʃe/ [ˈpe(ɪ̯).ʃe]
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejʃi, (Portugal) -ɐjʃɨ, (Northern and Central Portugal) -ejʃɨ, (Southern Portugal) -eʃɨ, (Brazil, j-dropping) -eʃi
  • Hyphenation: pei‧xe

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Galician peixe.

Noun edit

peixe m (plural peixes)

  1. fish (cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:peixe
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
  • Kabuverdianu: pexi

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

peixe

  1. inflection of peixar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative