piscis

See also: Piscis

Latin

Duo piscēs.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

piscis m (genitive piscis); third declension

1. 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”)
• *porcopiscis m (“(i.e., porcus + piscis) pig-fish, porpoise”) (Vulgar Latin)

Related terms

• piscāria
• piscārius
• piscātiō
• piscātor
• piscātōrius
• piscātrīx
• piscātūra
• piscātus
• pisceus
• piscicapus
• pisciceps
• pisciculus
• Pisciculus
• piscīna
• piscīnālis
• piscīnārius
• piscīnēnsis
• piscīnilla
• piscīnula
• pisciunculus
• piscor
• piscōsus
• pisculentum
• pisculentus
• pisculus

Descendants

Descendants

• Aragonese: pex
• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: peashti, peashte, peshti
  • Istro-Romanian: peșt
  • Megleno-Romanian: peaști
  • Romanian: piște, pește
• Catalan: peix
• Corsican: pesciu
• Dalmatian: pasc, pask
• Friulian: pes
• Istriot: piso
• Italian: pesce
• Ladin: pësc
• Ligurian: péscio
• Lombard: pès
• 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
  • Galician: peixe
  • Portuguese: peixe (see there for further descendants)
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: pexe
  • Extremaduran: peci
  • Leonese: peixe
  • Mirandese: peç
• Old Spanish: pez
  • Spanish: pez
• Piedmontese: pess
• Romagnol: pèṣ
• 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

• “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 (invariable)

1. born under the zodiac sign Pisces

Further reading

• “piscis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10