piscator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin piscator.

Noun

piscator (plural piscators)

1. (archaic, formal) A fisherman; an angler.
   • 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 […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• apricots, patricos

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Latin

Etymology

From piscor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pisˈkaː.tor/, [pɪs̠ˈkäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pisˈka.tor/, [pisˈkäːt̪or]

Noun

piscātor m (genitive piscātōris); third declension

1. fisher, fisherman

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

Verb

(deprecated template usage) piscātor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of piscor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of piscor

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.