Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Portuguese peixe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpejʃe/ , /ˈpejʃ/
• Rhymes: -ejʃe, -ejʃ
• Hyphenation: pei‧xe

peixe m (plural peixes)

1. a fish
2. (uncountable) fish
   • 1517, María Ángela Comesaña Martínez (ed.), O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra. Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 161:

     paga Pedro de Santiago escudeiro en cada huun ano para sempre nove mrs. vellos por huna casa que esta enna Rua de Peyxe frigido

     Pedro de Santiago, squire, pays each year, forever, nine old coins, for a house that is in the Fried Fish Street

3. trout
4. (figurative) a mean person

• peixaría
• peixería
• peixeiro
• Peixoto

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “peixe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peyx”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “peixe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “peixe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “peixe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• pexe

Inherited from Latin piscem.

peixe m

1. fish

• Pallabreiru Llïonés

• pexe, peyxe

Inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpei̯.ʃe/

peixe m (plural peixes)

1. fish

   Synonym: pescado

   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 369 (facsimile):

     e pois lauou aq(ue)l peyxe

     Then, she cleaned that fish

• coçar-se con a mão do peixe

• Galician: peixe
• Ladino: peshe
• Portuguese: peixe (see there for further descendants)

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “peixe”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

peixe

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Picture dictionary

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carpa enguia peixinho dourado arenque cavala salmão sardinha tubarão truta atum

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejʃi, (Portugal) -ɐjʃɨ, (Northern and Central Portugal) -ejʃɨ, (Southern Portugal) -eʃɨ, (Brazil, j-dropping) -eʃi
• Hyphenation: pei‧xe

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Galician peixe.

peixe m (plural peixes)

1. fish (cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:peixe

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
• Kabuverdianu: pexi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peixe

1. inflection of peixar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative