peixe

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese peixe, peyxe, from Latin piscis, piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.

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. (figuratively) a mean person

Derived terms

References

  • peixe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • peyx” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • 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

Noun

peixe m

  1. fish

References


Old Portuguese

Noun

peixe m

  1. Alternative form of peyxe

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese peixe, peyxe, from Latin piscis, piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysḱ-.

Pronunciation

Noun

peixe m (plural peixes)

  1. fish (cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water)

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

  • See Category:pt:Fish

Meronyms

Holonyms

Derived terms

  • peixe fora d'água

Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
  • Kabuverdianu: pexi
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