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piscis

fish

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Where it lives

De Re Coquinaria 56 · 35.7/10k
Mosella 10 · 30.76/10k
Apologia 44 · 20.47/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 8 · 13.82/10k
Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Rudens 11 · 9.27/10k
Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 8.65/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Satyrarum libri 10 · 7.04/10k

Densest 12 of 110 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. piscis — de Vaan

piscis 'fish' [m. /] (P1.+) Derivatives: piscari 'to fish' (P1.+), piscdrius 'of fish' (P1.+), piscator 'fisherman' (PL+), piscatorius 'of catching and selling fish' (P1.+), piscatus, -us 'the fishing' pituita (PL+X pisciculus 'little fish5 (Ter.+), piscina 'fishpond, ροοΓ (Pk+), piscinarius Of fishponds5 (P1.+), piscinensis 'haunting swimming-baths' (Lucil.), pisculentus 'teeming with fish' (P1.+). Pit. *piski- … — [de Vaan, s.v. piscis, p. 481]

2. piscis — Lewis & Short

piscis, is, m.etym. dub.; cf. Angl. -Sax. fisk, Germ. Fisch,

I a fish.

I Lit.: ubi lanigerum pecus piscibus pascit, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. cyprio, p. 59 Müll. (Sat. v. 42 Vahl.); id. ap. App. Mag. p. 299 (Heduph. v. 5 Vahl.); Plaut. As. 1, 3, 26; id. Truc. 2, 3, 1: pisces ut saepe minutos magnu' comest, Varr. ap. Non. 81, 11: etsi pisces ut aiunt, ova cum genuerunt, relinquunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 129; Hor. C. 4, 3, 19; Juv. 4, 72.—

2 Sing. collect.: pisce vehi quaedam (natarum videntur), Ov. M. 2, 13; Plin. 11, 53, 116, § 281: lacus piscem suggerit, Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 1; so, piscis femina, Ov. A. A. 2, 482.—

II Transf., as a constellation.

A Pisces, the Fishes, a constellation consisting of 34 stars. Acc. to the myth, Cupid and Venus, during the war of the Titans, were carried for safety across the Euphrales by fishes, who were on this account placed among the stars, Ov. F. 2, 458; Hyg. Astr. 2, 30; 3, 29; Col. 11, 2, 24; 63; cf. nodus, I. B. 7.—

B Piscis major, Avien. Arat. 806. Prob. the same constellation, in the southern heavens, which Verg. G. 4, 234, calls Piscis aquosus; cf. Manil. 1, 428.

In the wild

piscium Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 4.143
pisces Celsus, De Medicina 2.29
piscis Apuleius, Apologia 30
piscibus Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.74
piscem Apicius, De Re Coquinaria 9.441
piscium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.9.p43

6 of 687 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. piscis (scan pp. 481-482; entry #1337). Root candidates: *piski-, *pisk-, *pisko-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. piscis (scan p. 534; entry #8744).

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