piscoso

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin piscōsus, derived from piscis (fish).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /piˈsko.zo/
  • Rhymes: -ozo
  • Hyphenation: pi‧scó‧so

Adjective

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piscoso (feminine piscosa, masculine plural piscosi, feminine plural piscose)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of pescoso (fishful)
    • 1516–1532, Ludovico Ariosto, “Canto 3”, in Orlando furioso, stanza 41; republished as Santorre Debenedetti, editor, Bari: Laterza, 1928:
      Come la terra, il cui produr di Rose
      Le die piacevol nome in Greche voci
      E la città ch’in mezo a le piscose
      Paludi del Po teme ambe le foci
      As the land whose production of roses granted it a pleasant name in Greek voices [languages], and the city that, among the fishful swamps of the Po, fears both rivermouths

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Latin

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Adjective

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piscōsō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of piscōsus

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin piscōsus

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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piscoso (feminine piscosa, masculine plural piscosos, feminine plural piscosas, metaphonic)

  1. full of fish; fishful