piscis

See also: Piscis

Latin

Duo piscēs.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

piscis m (genitive piscis); third declension

a 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”)

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
Padanian:
- Friulian: pes
- Istriot: piso
- Ladin: pësc
- Ligurian: péscio
- Lombard: pès
- Piedmontese: pess
- Romagnol: pèṣ
- Romansch: pesch, pèsch; pestg, pèsch
- Venetian: pése, pésse, pisse
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: peis ⇒ pescion, peissun, poisson
  - Bourguignon: poisson
  - French: poisson
    - Haitian Creole: pwason
    - Louisiana Creole French: pwason
    - Mauritian Creole: pwason
    - Seychellois Creole: pwason
  - Norman: peissoun
  - Picard: pichon
  - Tourangeau: pouésson, posson
  - Walloon: pexhon
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: peix
- Catalan: peix
- Occitan: peis
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: pisci (Campidanese), pische (Logudorese, Nuorese)
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: pexe
  - Extremaduran: peci
  - Leonese: peixe
  - Mirandese: peç
- Old Portuguese: peyxe, pexe, peixe
  - Galician: peixe
  - Portuguese: peixe
    - Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
    - Kabuverdianu: pexi
- Old Spanish: pez
  - Spanish: pez, peje
→ 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)

Spanish

Adjective

piscis (invariable)

born under the zodiac sign Pisces