piscator Latin · revision 33203

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *pisk-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɪsˈkaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pisˈkaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''piscātor''' ''m'' (genitive piscātōris, feminine piscātrīx); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|piscor|-tor|t1=to fish]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|piscor]] is made from [[m|la|piscis|t=fish]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*piski-|t=fish]] and [[ine-pro|*pisk-|t=fish]], cognate with [[sga|íasc|t=fish]] and [[non|fiskr|t=fish]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL finds it first in Plautus, Terence and Cato;^(TLL) Plautus has it in the ''Rudens''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is someone who catches and sells fish.^(OLD 2012) Terence lists fishermen with butchers, cooks and sausage-makers, and Cicero tells of a man who calls the fishermen together.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal and Seneca use it, and the jurist Paulus speaks of a fisherman's tackle.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions record ''piscatores propolae'', fish dealers.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The Vulgate's Gospel of Matthew has ''piscatores hominum'', “fishers of men”.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin has “fisherman, angler”.^(Stelten 1995) It lives on in [[it|pescatore]], [[fr|pêcheur]] and [[es|pescador]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus has the word.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence, in a list of tradesmen.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of fishermen called together.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate, “fishers of men”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|fisherman]], one who catches and sells fish; an [[m|en|angler]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[piscātōrius]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[piscis]]

+ * [[piscor]]

+ * [[piscīna]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}