piscator
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Noun
piscator (plural piscators)
- (archaic, formal) A fisherman; an angler.
- 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 1, 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
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “piscator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pisˈkaː.tor/, [pɪs̠ˈkäːt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pisˈka.tor/, [pisˈkäːt̪or]
Noun
piscātor m (genitive piscātōris, feminine piscātrix); third declension
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
descendants
- Corsican: piscatore, pescatore, pescadore
- Dalmatian: peskatáur
- Emilian: pscadåur
- Franco-Provençal: pêchior
- Friulian: pescjadôr, pesčhadôr
- Istriot: pascadùr
- Ladin: pesciador
- Lombard: pes'cadur
- Neapolitan: piscatore
- Old French: pescheor, pescheur, peskeur
- Old Italian:
- Italian: pescatore
- Old Leonese: pescador
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: pescador
- Old Spanish:
- Piedmontese: pëscadur
- Romansch: pestgader, pestgadur
- Sabir: pescador
- Shona: piscadore, piscadori
- Sicilian: piscaturi
- Venetian: pescador, pescadore
- → English: piscator
Verb
(deprecated template usage) piscātor
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.
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