pez
Basque[edit]
Noun[edit]
pez
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese pez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pix, picem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pez m or f (plural peces)
References[edit]
- “pez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “pez” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “pez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pez” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pez” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Northern Kurdish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Iranian *pácu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *páću, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pez m
Old Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin picem, accusative of pix.
Noun[edit]
pez f (usually uncountable)
Descendants[edit]
- Spanish: pez
Etymology 2[edit]
Inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.
Noun[edit]
pez m (plural peces)
- fish
- Idem, f.92r.
- Et la eſtrella meridional de las dos que ſon en el uientre del pez poſtrimero en la figura de piſces a poder en eſta piedra […]
- And the northern start of the two that are on the belly of the last fish in the figure of Pisces has power over this stone […]
- Et la eſtrella meridional de las dos que ſon en el uientre del pez poſtrimero en la figura de piſces a poder en eſta piedra […]
Synonyms[edit]
- pescado m
Descendants[edit]
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese pez, from Latin picem, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), from *pi- (“sap, juice”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pez m (plural pezes)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈpeθ/ [ˈpeθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈpes/ [ˈpes]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -eθ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: pez
- Homophone: (Latin America) pes
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Old Spanish pez, from Latin picem, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), from *pi- (“sap, juice”).
Noun[edit]
pez f (plural peces)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Old Spanish pez, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-. Compare peje, Italian pesce, Portuguese peixe, Romanian pește.
Noun[edit]
pez m (plural peces)
Usage notes[edit]
- The noun pez is used when referring to live fish, as opposed to pescado, used to refer to a fish once it's been hooked, taken from the water, cooked, served as food, etc.
Derived terms[edit]
- beber como un pez
- como pez en el agua
- estar pez
- pececillo
- pececito
- pecera
- pez arco iris
- pez ballesta
- pez cirujano
- pez cofre
- pez corneta
- pez de leche
- pez de oro
- pez dorado
- pez espada
- pez gato
- pez globo
- pez gordo
- pez loro
- pez luna
- pez mandarín
- pez mantequilla
- pez payaso
- pez plano
- pez pulmonado
- pez sierra
- pez volador
- por la boca muere el pez
- que te folle un pez
- quien quiera peces, que moje el culo
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “pez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Basque non-lemma forms
- Basque noun forms
- Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Galician terms inherited from Latin
- Galician terms derived from Latin
- Galician terms with IPA pronunciation
- Galician lemmas
- Galician nouns
- Galician masculine nouns
- Galician feminine nouns
- Galician nouns with multiple genders
- Northern Kurdish terms inherited from Proto-Iranian
- Northern Kurdish terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Northern Kurdish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Northern Kurdish terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Northern Kurdish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Northern Kurdish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Northern Kurdish 1-syllable words
- Northern Kurdish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Northern Kurdish lemmas
- Northern Kurdish nouns
- Northern Kurdish masculine nouns
- kmr:Mammals
- Northern Kurdish three-letter words
- Old Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Old Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Old Spanish lemmas
- Old Spanish nouns
- Old Spanish feminine nouns
- Old Spanish terms with quotations
- Old Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Spanish masculine nouns
- osp:Fish
- osp:Gums and resins
- Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Portuguese 1-syllable words
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish 1-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/eθ
- Rhymes:Spanish/eθ/1 syllable
- Rhymes:Spanish/es
- Rhymes:Spanish/es/1 syllable
- Spanish terms with homophones
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish informal terms
- es:Fish
- es:Gums and resins
- Spanish nouns that have different meanings depending on their gender