piscis
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Duo piscēs.
See also: Piscis
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *piskis, from Proto-Indo-European *péysks. Cognates include Old Irish íasc, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks) and Old English fisċ (English fish).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpis.kis/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpiʃ.ʃis/,
Noun
piscis m (genitive piscis); third declension
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
Descendants
Descendants of piscis
- Aragonese: pex
- Aromanian: peashti, peashte, peshti
- Catalan: peix
- Corsican: pesciu
- Dalmatian: pasc, pask
- Friulian: pes
- Istriot: piso
- Istro-Romanian: peșt
- Italian: pesce
- Ladin: pësc
- Ligurian: péscio
- Lombard: pès
- Megleno-Romanian: peaști
- Neapolitan: pesce
- Occitan: peis
- Old French: poisson, peison, peisoun, peisun, peisson, peissoun, peissun, pescion, poissoun (see there for further descendants)
- Old Galician-Portuguese: peixe, pexe, peyxe
- Old Leonese:
- Old Spanish: pez
- Spanish: pez
- Piedmontese: pess
- Romagnol: pèṣ
- Romanian: pește
- Romansch: pèsch, pesch (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader), pestg (Sutsilvan)
- Sardinian: pisci (Campidanese), pische (Logudorese, Nuorese)
- Sicilian: pisci
- Venetan: pése, pésse, pisse
- → 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)
- to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
Spanish
Adjective
piscis (invariable)
- born under the zodiac sign Pisces
Further reading
- “piscis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014