poisson
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Middle French and Old French, from an older form peis, from Latin piscis, see below.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
poisson m. (plural poissons)
- fish (marine animal)
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[edit] Old French
[edit] Etymology
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”).
[edit] Noun
poisson m. (oblique plural poissons, nominative singular poissons, nominative plural poisson)
[edit] Descendants
- French: poisson
[edit] References
- "poisson" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms with homophones
- 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