pescetarian

From Italian pesce (“fish”) +‎ -arian, by analogy with vegetarian.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛskɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/, /ˌpɛsɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛskɪˈtɛɹi.ən/, /ˌpɛsɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
• Hyphenation: pes‧ce‧ta‧ri‧an

pescetarian (plural pescetarians)

1. A person who consumes no animal flesh with the exception of fish or seafood.
   • 1999 March 26, Jessica R. Shawl, “‘Vegetarians’???”, in rec.food.veg, Usenet‎, message-ID <36FBD2DB.8237C15@scdt.intel.com>:

     I'm curious what you do when you encounter a friend, family member, whoever who claims to be a "vegetarian who eats fish". It *really* bothers me when this happens because it contributes to the assumption that I eat fish and I don't, because I am a vegetarian. I feel like it gives all vegetarians a bad name. Do you correct them? Do you not bother? And how do you correct them? I was thinking that saying something like "oh, you mean your^[sic] a pescetarian" would be ok and give them the appropriate term. Speaking of which, how is "pescetarian" pronounced?

   • 2004, Pierre Jean Cousin; Kirsten Hartvig, The Complete Guide to Nutritional Health: More Than 600 Foods and Recipes for Overcoming Illness and Boosting your Immunity, London: Duncan Baird Publishers, →ISBN, page 149:

     Eat for Immunity follows a plant-based approach to improving immunity that is relevant to every style of eating—carnivore, pescetarian, vegetarian and vegan.

   • 2006, Ayun Halliday, Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste, Emeryville, Calif.: Seal Press, →ISBN, page 151:

     "Why don't you just tell people you're a pescetarian?" a vegetarian I met recently asked, cutting me off midapologia for my beat-up leather jacket and my callow habit of behaving as if fish are neurologically no more complex than eggplants.

• pescatarian
• piscetarian

• pescovegetarian
• piscivore (scientific)
• fishetarian
• vegaquarian

• meatatarian
• vegetarian

• pescetarian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “pescetarian” in Paul McFedries, Word Spy, Logophilia Limited, 17 September 2003, retrieved 4 June 2017.

• Capernaites