piscatory

English

Etymology

From Latin piscātor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).

Adjective

piscatory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “5, "Twelfth Century"”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     The Ribble and the Aire roll down, as yet unpolluted by dyers' chemistry; tenanted by merry trouts and piscatory otters.

2. Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it.

Synonyms

• piscatorial

Related terms

• piscatory ring

Translations

of, about, or pertaining to the act of fishing

• Armenian: ձկնորսական (hy) (jknorsakan)
• Bulgarian: риболовен (bg) (riboloven)
• Danish: (compounds) fiske- (da)
• Finnish: kalastus- (fi)
• Greek: αλιευτικός (el) (alieftikós)
• Italian: piscatorio m
• Japanese: 釣りの (ja) (tsuri no)
• Macedonian: ри́барски (ríbarski), риболо́вен (ribolóven)
• Polish: rybacki (pl)
• Russian: рыба́цкий (ru) (rybáckij), рыболове́цкий (ru) (rybolovéckij), рыболо́вный (ru) (rybolóvnyj), рыба́чий (ru) (rybáčij)
• Swedish: fiskar- (sv), fiske- (sv)

References

• “piscatory”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.