piscis

From Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-. Cognates include Old Irish íasc, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks) and Old English fisc (English fish).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpis.kis/, [ˈpɪs.kɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ʃis/, [ˈpiʃ.ʃis]

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piscis m (genitive piscis); third declension

1. a fish

The singular form may also be used as a collective noun.

Third declension i-stem.

• Piscis (“Piscis Austrinus (constellation)”, literally “the Fish”)
• Piscēs (“Pisces (constellation)”, literally “the Fishes”)

• Eastern Romance:
  • Balkan-Romace:
    • Aromanian: peashti, peashte, pescu
    • Istro-Romanian: peşt
    • Romanian: pește
  • Dalmatian: pasc, pask
  • Istriot: piso
• Southern Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidanese: pisci
    • Logudorese: pische
    • Nuorese: pische
• Western Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Ligurian: péscio
      • Lombard: pès
      • Piedmontese: pess
      • Romagnol: pèṣ
    • Occitano-Romance:
      • Old Occitan:
        • Catalan: peix
        • Occitan: peis
    • Oïl:
      • Old French: peis
        • ⇒ Old French: poisson
          • Bourguignon: poisson
          • French: poisson
            • Haitian Creole: pwason
            • Louisiana Creole: pwason
            • Mauritian Creole: pwason
            • Seychellois Creole: pwason
          • Norman: paîsson, peissoun, païssaon
          • Picard: pichon
          • Tourangeau: pouésson, posson
          • Walloon: pexhon
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: pes
      • Ladin: pësc
      • Romansch: pesch, pèsch, pèsch
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Navarro-Aragonese:
      • Aragonese: peix
    • Old Leonese:
      • Asturian: pexe
      • Extremaduran: peci
      • Leonese: peixe
      • Mirandese: peç
    • Old Portuguese: peyxe, pexe, peixe
      • Galician: peixe
      • Portuguese: peixe
        • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
        • Kabuverdianu: pexi
    • Old Spanish: pez
      • Spanish: pez, peje
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: pesciu
    • Italian: pesce
    • Neapolitan: pesce
    • Sicilian: pisci
    • Venetian: pése, pésse, pisse
• Non-Romance:
  • → Albanian: peshk
  • → Breton: pesk
  • → Cornish: pysk, pesk

• 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, 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)
    

piscis (invariant)

1. Born under the zodiac sign Pisces.