peixe

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

peixe m (plural peixes)

a fish
(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
trout
(figurative) a mean person

Derived terms

References

Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “peixe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peyx”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
“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

Alternative forms

pexe

Etymology

Inherited from Latin piscem.

Noun

peixe m

fish

References

Pallabreiru Llïonés

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

pexe, peyxe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpei̯.ʃe/

Noun

peixe m (plural peixes)

fish
Synonym: pescado
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 369 (facsimile):
  e pois lauou aq(ue)l peyxe
  Then, she cleaned that fish

Derived terms

coçar-se con a mão do peixe

Descendants

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

Further reading

Manuel Ferreiro (since 2014) “peixe”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

peixe

Picture dictionary

peixe

carpa

enguia

peixinho dourado

peixinho dourado

arenque

cavala

salmão

sardinha

tubarão

truta

atum

Pronunciation

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

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐj.ʃɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.ʃɨ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpej.ʃɨ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ʃɨ/

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

peixe m (plural peixes)

fish (cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:peixe

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
Kabuverdianu: pexi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

peixe

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

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