pez

Basque

Noun

pez

1. instrumental indefinite of pe

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pix, picem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): , (western)

Noun

pez m or f (plural peces)

1. pitch, tar

   Synonym: piche

2. pitch, resin

   Synonyms: recina, resina

References

• “pez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pez” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pez” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pez” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pez” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *pácu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *páću, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛz/

Noun

pez m

1. sheep

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpet͡s/

Etymology 1

From Latin picem, accusative of pix.

Noun

pez f (usually uncountable)

1. pitch, tar
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 53r:

     Et a tal uertud que ſi la ponẽ ſobre mill peſos de pez faz los feruir por ſu p̃p̃dat biẽ como si estudieſſen a fuego.

     And its virtue is such that if it is put over a thousand weights of pitch, it lights them due to its property, as if they were on fire.

Descendants

• Spanish: pez

Etymology 2

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

Noun

pez m (plural peces)

1. fish
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 56v:

     […] ca alli a una laguna q̃ ſe tiene cõ la. en q̃ a unos peces tamannos como un palmo. ⁊ no an eſcama nĩguna.

     for in that place there is a pool in which there are large fish, the size of a handspan, and they have no scales whatsoever.

   • Idem, f.92r.

     Et la eſtrella meridional de las dos que ſon en el uientre del pez poſtrimero en la figura de piſces a poder en eſta piedra […]

     And the northern start of the two that are on the belly of the last fish in the figure of Pisces has power over this stone

Synonyms

• pescado m

Descendants

• Ladino: peshkado
• Spanish: pez

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pez, from Latin picem, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), from *pi- (“sap, juice”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pez m (plural pezes)

1. pitch (dark, extremely viscous material made by distilling tar)

   Synonym: piche

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Pez (disambiguation)

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈpeθ/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈpes/
• (Spain) Rhymes: -eθ
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: pez
• Homophone: (Latin America) pes

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish pez, from Latin picem, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), from *pi- (“sap, juice”).

Noun

pez f (plural peces)

1. pitch, tar

Derived terms

See also

• brea

Etymology 2

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

pez

Wikipedia ^es

Inherited from Old Spanish pez, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare peje, Italian pesce, Portuguese peixe, Romanian pește.

Noun

pez m (plural peces)

1. fish (especially while alive)

   Synonym: peje

2. (informal) idiot, dimwit

Usage notes

• The noun pez is used when referring to live fish, as opposed to pescado, used to refer to a fish once it's been hooked, taken from the water, cooked, served as food, etc.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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