piscis

See also: Piscis

Latin

Duo piscēs.

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *piskis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Cognates include Old Irish íasc, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks) and Old English fisċ (English fish).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.kis/, [ˈpɪs̠kɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpiʃ.ʃis/, [ˈpiʃːis]

Noun

piscis m (genitive piscis); third declension

1. fish

Usage notes

The singular form may also be used as a collective noun.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	piscis	piscēs
Genitive	piscis	piscium
Dative	piscī	piscibus
Accusative	piscem	piscēs piscīs
Ablative	pisce	piscibus
Vocative	piscis	piscēs

Derived terms

• Piscis (“Piscis Austrinus (constellation)”, literally “the Fish”)
• Piscēs (“Pisces (constellation)”, literally “the Fishes”)
• *porcopiscis m (“(i.e., porcus + piscis) pig-fish, porpoise”) (Vulgar Latin)

Related terms

• piscāria
• piscārius
• piscātiō
• piscātor
• piscātōrius
• piscātrīx
• piscātūra
• piscātus
• pisceus
• piscicapus
• pisciceps
• pisciculus
• Pisciculus
• piscīna
• piscīnālis
• piscīnārius
• piscīnēnsis
• piscīnilla
• piscīnula
• pisciunculus
• piscor
• piscōsus
• pisculentum
• pisculentus
• pisculus

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: peashti ⇒ pescu
  • Istro-Romanian: peșt
  • Megleno-Romanian: peaști
  • Romanian: pește
• Dalmatian:
  • pasc, pask
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: pesciu
  • Italian: pesce
  • Neapolitan: pesce
  • Sicilian: pisci
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Friulian: pes
  • Istriot: piso
  • Ladin: pësc
  • Ligurian: péscio
  • Lombard: pès
  • Piedmontese: pess
  • Romagnol: pèṣ
  • Romansch: pesch, pèsch (Sursilvan), pestg (Sutsilvan), pèsch, pesch (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader), pestg (Sutsilvan)
  • Venetian: pése, pésse, pisse
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: peis ⇒ pescion, peissun, poisson
    • Bourguignon: poisson
    • French: poisson (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: peissoun
    • Picard: pichon
    • Walloon: pexhon
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: peix
  • Occitan: peis
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: pex
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: pexe
    • Extremaduran: peci
    • Leonese: peixe
    • Mirandese: peç
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: peixe, pexe, peyxe
    • Galician: peixe
    • Portuguese: peixe (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: pez
    • Spanish: pez, peje
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: pisci (Campidanese), pische (Logudorese, Nuorese)
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: peshk
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *pɨsk (see there for further descendants)

References

• “piscis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “piscis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piscis 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)
• piscis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
    

Spanish

Adjective

piscis (invariable)

1. born under the zodiac sign Pisces

Further reading

• “piscis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014