peixe

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Portuguese peixe.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpejʃe̝/, /ˈpejʃ/

Noun

peixe m (plural peixes)

  1. a fish
  2. (uncountable) fish
    • 1517, María Ángela Comesaña Martínez (ed.), O tombo do Hospital e Ermida de santa María do Camiño de Pontevedra. Pontevedra: Museo de Pontevedra, page 161:
      paga Pedro de Santiago escudeiro en cada huun ano para sempre nove mrs. vellos por huna casa que esta enna Rua de Peyxe frigido
      Pedro de Santiago, squire, pays each year, forever, nine old coins, for a house that is in the Fried Fish Street
  3. trout
  4. (figurative) a mean person

Derived terms

References
  • “peixe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “peyx” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “peixe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “peixe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “peixe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Leonese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin piscem.

Noun

peixe m

  1. fish

References

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpej.ʃe/

Noun

peixe m

  1. fish

Derived terms
  • coçar-se con a mão do peixe

Descendants
  • Galician: peixe
  • Portuguese: peixe (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpe(j).ʃi/ [ˈpe(ɪ̯).ʃi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpe(j).ʃe/ [ˈpe(ɪ̯).ʃe]
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejʃi, (Portugal) -ɐjʃɨ, (Northern and Central Portugal) -ejʃɨ, (Southern Portugal) -eʃɨ, (Brazil, j-dropping) -eʃi
  • Hyphenation: pei‧xe

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Galician peixe.

Noun

peixe m (plural peixes)

  1. fish (cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:peixe
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
  • Kabuverdianu: pexi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

peixe

  1. inflection of peixar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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