pescoso

See also: Pescoso

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin piscōsus, derived from piscis (fish).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peˈsko.zo/
  • Rhymes: -ozo
  • Hyphenation: pe‧scó‧so

Adjective

pescoso (feminine pescosa, masculine plural pescosi, feminine plural pescose)

  1. (of a body of water) fish-filled, fishful (abounding in fish, full of fish)
    • 1825, “Libro IX [Book 9]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 182, lines 6–10:
      [] in quella guisa,
      Che il pescoso Oceàno si rabbuffa,
      Quando improvviso dalla tracia tana
      Di Ponente sorgiunge e d’Aquilone
      L’impetuoso soffio []
      In a manner similar to how the fishful ocean swells when, from the Thracian lair, suddenly the impetuous blowing of the west and north winds comes

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pescoso in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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