piscosus Latin · revision 34363

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=la piscis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɪsˈkoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [pisˈkɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''piscōsus''' (feminine piscōsa, neuter piscōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|piscis|-ōsus|t1=fish]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) The noun goes back to [[itc-pro|*piski-]] and [[ine-pro|*pisk-|t=fish]], cognate with [[sga|íasc]], [[goh|fisk]] and [[non|fiskr]]; de Vaan finds the vowel of the Celtic word difficult to account for.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Virgil,^(Köbler 2010) who speaks in the ''Aeneid'' of rocks teeming with fish, ''piscosos scopulos''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Ovid uses it of a river and of shallows, Seneca of rivers, Martial of the Tagus and the deep, and Justin of the Ocean.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Nonius records it in the sense “like a fish”.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010) Medieval British writers used it of waters rich in fish and also of things having to do with fish or fishing.^(DMLBS) It lives on in [[it|pescoso]] and [[es|pescoso]].^(TLL)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil speaks of rocks teeming with fish.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of a river.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of rivers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * end of the 4th or beginning of the 5th century AD – Nonius records it in the sense “like a fish”.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|teem|alt=Teeming]] with [[m|en|fish]], abounding in fish.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Like a fish.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of or relating to fish or fishing.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Plautus has [[pisculentus]] in the same sense of teeming with fish.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}