piscatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of piscor.

Participle

piscātus (feminine piscāta, neuter piscātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. fished, having been fished

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative piscātus piscāta piscātum piscātī piscātae piscāta
Genitive piscātī piscātae piscātī piscātōrum piscātārum piscātōrum
Dative piscātō piscātō piscātīs
Accusative piscātum piscātam piscātum piscātōs piscātās piscāta
Ablative piscātō piscātā piscātō piscātīs
Vocative piscāte piscāta piscātum piscātī piscātae piscāta

Noun

piscātus m (genitive piscātūs); fourth declension

  1. fish that has been caught; catch

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative piscātus piscātūs
Genitive piscātūs piscātuum
Dative piscātuī piscātibus
Accusative piscātum piscātūs
Ablative piscātū piscātibus
Vocative piscātus piscātūs

Descendants
  • Italian: pescato
  • Spanish: pescado
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *pɨskọd pl (“fish”)

References
  • “piscatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “piscatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • piscatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Adams, James Noel (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, 200 BC - AD 600, page 596:
    Thus piscatus is a verbal noun originally referring to the act of fishing.... Like many abstract verbal nouns piscatus acquired a secondary, concrete, meaning (‘fish’, collective).... The concrete sense is attested first in Plautus (several times), then in Turpilius, Pomponius, Cicero, Varro, Vitruvius, Apuleius and others: it was a mundane usage from the earliest period of attested Latin.
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