piscator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin piscātor.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

piscator (plural piscators)

1. (archaic, formal) A fisherman; an angler.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 246–247:

     ...this was Lady Allerton, no longer the artful Miss Aubrey, who drew away poor Mary Granard's lover, but the imperious wife, who had long since taught her cautious, suspicious husband that he had been angled for by a skilful piscator, and secured by tackle the law alone could break.

   • 1865, John William Carleton, editor, The Sporting Review:

     The canes themselves tower up, many of them, for more than thirty feet in height, and are at the lower joints as thick as a man's arm, though millions of lesser growth are there, to furnish fishing-poles for all the piscators alive.

   • 1896, The Fishing Gazette:

     On the other hand, the sundry species (and these represent the majority) which will take a 'personal vanity' fly always move in shoals, and a little observation will show the piscators that they bite for two reasons only […]

Related terms

• piscatrix

References

• “piscator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• apricots, isopract, patricos

Latin

Etymology

From piscor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pisˈkaː.tor/, [pɪs̠ˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pisˈka.tor/, [pisˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

piscātor m (genitive piscātōris, feminine piscātrīx); third declension

1. fisher, fisherman

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	piscātor	piscātōrēs
Genitive	piscātōris	piscātōrum
Dative	piscātōrī	piscātōribus
Accusative	piscātōrem	piscātōrēs
Ablative	piscātōre	piscātōribus
Vocative	piscātor	piscātōrēs

Descendants

• Corsican: piscatore, pescatore, pescadore
• Dalmatian: peskatáur
• Emilian: pscadåur
• Franco-Provençal: pêchior
• Friulian: pescjadôr, pesčhadôr
• Istriot: pascadùr
• Ladin: pesciador
• Piedmontese: pëscào
• Ligurian: pescàu
• Lombard: pescor
• Neapolitan: piscatore
• Old French: pescheor, pescheur, peskeur
  • Middle French: pescheur
    • French: pêcheur
      • Antillean Creole: péchè
      • Guianese Creole: péchèr
      • Karipúna Creole French: péxó
      • Louisiana Creole: pechèr
      • → Aruamu: peser
  • Norman: pêtcheux
• Old Italian:
  • Italian: pescatore
    • Piedmontese: pëscadur
• Old Leonese: pescador
  • Asturian: pescador, pescaor
  • Leonese: pescador
  • Mirandese: pescador
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: pescador, peschador
  • Old Catalan: pescador
    • Catalan: pescador
• Old Galician-Portuguese: pescador
  • Galician: pescador
  • Portuguese: pescador
    • → Angolar: pisikarô
    • → Kabuverdianu: piscador
    • → Papiamentu: piskadó
    • → Principense: pixkadô
    • → Tetum: peskadór
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: peskador
  • Spanish: pescador
    • Chavacano: peskador
    • → Romanian: pescador
• Romansch: pestgader, pestgadur
• Sabir: pescador
• Shona: piscadore, piscadori
• Sicilian: piscaturi
• Venetian: pescador, pescadore
• → English: piscator

Verb

piscātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of piscor

References

• “piscator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “piscator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piscator 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)
• piscator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.