piscator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin piscātor.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Noun

piscator (plural piscators)

  1. (archaic, formal) A fisherman; an angler.
    • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 246–247:
      ...this was Lady Allerton, no longer the artful Miss Aubrey, who drew away poor Mary Granard's lover, but the imperious wife, who had long since taught her cautious, suspicious husband that he had been angled for by a skilful piscator, and secured by tackle the law alone could break.
    • 1865, John William Carleton, editor, The Sporting Review:
      The canes themselves tower up, many of them, for more than thirty feet in height, and are at the lower joints as thick as a man's arm, though millions of lesser growth are there, to furnish fishing-poles for all the piscators alive.
    • 1896, The Fishing Gazette:
      On the other hand, the sundry species (and these represent the majority) which will take a 'personal vanity' fly always move in shoals, and a little observation will show the piscators that they bite for two reasons only […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “piscator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From piscor +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

Noun

piscātor m (genitive piscātōris, feminine piscātrix); third declension

  1. fisher, fisherman

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative piscātor piscātōrēs
Genitive piscātōris piscātōrum
Dative piscātōrī piscātōribus
Accusative piscātōrem piscātōrēs
Ablative piscātōre piscātōribus
Vocative piscātor piscātōrēs

Descendants
descendants
  • Corsican: piscatore, pescatore, pescadore
  • Dalmatian: peskatáur
  • Emilian: pscadåur
  • Franco-Provençal: pêchior
  • Friulian: pescjadôr, pesčhadôr
  • Istriot: pascadùr
  • Ladin: pesciador
  • Piedmontese: pëscào
  • Ligurian: pescàu
  • Lombard: pescor
  • Neapolitan: piscatore
  • Old French: pescheor, pescheur, peskeur
    • Middle French: pescheur
      • French: pêcheur
        • Antillean Creole: péchè
        • Guianese Creole: péchèr
        • Karipúna Creole French: péxó
        • Louisiana Creole: pechèr
        • → Aruamu: peser
    • Norman: pêtcheux
  • Old Italian:
  • Old Leonese: pescador
  • Old Occitan:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: pescador
    • Galician: pescador
    • Portuguese: pescador
      • → Angolar: pisikarô
      • → Kabuverdianu: piscador
      • → Papiamentu: piskadó
      • → Principense: pixkadô
      • → Tetum: peskadór
  • Old Spanish:
  • Romansch: pestgader, pestgadur
  • Sabir: pescador
  • Shona: piscadore, piscadori
  • Sicilian: piscaturi
  • Venetian: pescador, pescadore
  • → English: piscator

Verb

piscātor

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of piscor

References
  • “piscator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “piscator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • piscator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • piscator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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