poisson
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle French and Old French, from an older form peis, from Latin piscis, see below. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pisḱ-.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
poisson m (plural poissons)
- fish (marine animal)
Derived terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Old French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
First attested as pescion in 980, from peis + -on, peis being from Latin piscis. Peis probably evolved into pescion to avoid confusion with its homonym peis (“peace”).
Noun [edit]
poisson m (oblique plural poissons, nominative singular poissons, nominative plural poisson)
Descendants [edit]
- French: poisson
References [edit]
- "poisson" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Categories:
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Fish
- Old French words suffixed with -on
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns
- fro:Animals