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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	piscātus	piscāta	piscātum		piscātī	piscātae	piscāta
genitive	piscātī	piscātae	piscātī		piscātōrum	piscātārum	piscātōrum
dative	piscātō	piscātae	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.

	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”)
  • Middle Breton: pesquet
    • Breton: pesked
  • Middle Cornish: puskes
    • Cornish: puskes, pùscas
  • Middle Welsh: pysgawd
    • Welsh: pysgod

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.