piscator

English

Etymology

Noun

piscator (plural piscators)

(archaic, formal) A fisherman; an angler.
- John William Carleton (editor), The Sporting Review
  The canes themselves tower up, many of them, for more than thirty feet in height, and are at the lower joints as thick as a man's arm, though millions of lesser growth are there, to furnish fishing-poles for all the piscators alive.
- 1896, The Fishing Gazette
  On the other hand, the sundry species (and these represent the majority) which will take a 'personal vanity' fly always move in shoals, and a little observation will show the piscators that they bite for two reasons only […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for piscator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

apricots

Latin

Etymology

From piscor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /pisˈkaː.tor/, [pɪsˈkaː.tɔr]

Noun

piscātor m (genitive piscātōris); third declension

fisher, fisherman

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	piscātor	piscātōrēs
Genitive	piscātōris	piscātōrum
Dative	piscātōrī	piscātōribus
Accusative	piscātōrem	piscātōrēs
Ablative	piscātōre	piscātōribus
Vocative	piscātor	piscātōrēs

Descendants

descendants

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Corsican: piscatore, pescatore, pescadore
Dalmatian: peskatáur
Emilian: pscadåur
Franco-Provençal: pêchior
Friulian: pescjadôr, pesčhadôr
Istriot: pascadùr
Ladin: pesciador
Lombard: pes'cadur
Neapolitan: piscatore
Old French: pescheur, pescheor, peskeur
- Middle French: pescheur
  - French: pêcheur
    - → Antillean Creole: péchè
    - → Guianese Creole: péchèr
    - → Karipúna Creole French: péxó
    - → Louisiana Creole French: pechèr
    - → Aruamu: peser
- Norman: pêqueux, pêtcheux
Old Italian:
- Italian: pescatore
Old Leonese: pescador
- Asturian: pescador, pescaor
- Leonese: pescador
- Mirandese: pescador

Old Portuguese: pescador
- Galician: pescador
- Portuguese: pescador
  - → Angolar: pisikarô
  - → Kabuverdianu: piscador
  - → Papiamentu: piskadó
  - → Principense: pixkadô
  - → Tetum: peskadór
Old Occitan:
- Occitan: pescador, peschador
- Old Catalan: pescador
  - Catalan: pescador
Old Spanish:
- Ladino: peskador
- Spanish: pescador
  - → Chavacano: peskador
  - → Romanian: pescador
Piedmontese: pëscadur
Romansch: pestgader, pestgadur
Sabir: pescador
Sardinian: piscadore, piscadori
Sicilian: piscaturi
Venetian: pescador, pescadore

Verb

piscātor

second-person singular future active imperative of piscor
third-person singular future active imperative of piscor

References

piscator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
piscator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
piscator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
piscator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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