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Italian
Etymology
From Latin piscōsus, derived from piscis (“fish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈsko.zo/
- Rhymes: -ozo
- Hyphenation: pe‧scó‧so
Adjective
pescoso (feminine pescosa, masculine plural pescosi, feminine plural pescose)
- (of a body of water) fish-filled, fishful (abounding in fish, full of fish)
1825, “Libro IX [Book 9]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 182, lines 6–10:[…] in quella guisa,
Che il pescoso Oceàno si rabbuffa,
Quando improvviso dalla tracia tana
Di Ponente sorgiunge e d’Aquilone
L’impetuoso soffio […]- In a manner similar to how the fishful ocean swells when, from the Thracian lair, suddenly the impetuous blowing of the west and north winds comes
Derived terms
Further reading
- pescoso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana