Duopiscēs . FromProto-Italic *piskis , fromProto-Indo-European *péysks . Cognates includeOld Irish íasc ,Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 ( fisks ) andOld English fisċ (English fish ).
piscis m (genitive piscis ) ;third declension
fish The singular form may also be used as acollective noun .
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
Aragonese:pex Balkan Romance: Catalan:peix Corsican:pesciu Dalmatian:pasc ,pask Friulian:pes Istriot:piso Italian:pesce Ladin:pësc Ligurian:péscio Lombard:pès 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 Galician:peixe Portuguese:peixe (see there for further descendants ) Old Leonese:[Term?] Old Spanish:pez Piedmontese:pess Romagnol:pèṣ 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 )“piscis ”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press “piscis ”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "piscis ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) piscis inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894 )Latin Phrase-Book [1] , London:Macmillan and Co. to live on meat, fish, by plunder:vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25) piscis (invariable )
born under the zodiac signPisces