piscatus
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect active participle of piscor.
Participle
piscātus (feminine piscāta, neuter piscātum); first/second-declension participle
- having fished
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | piscātus | piscāta | piscātum | piscātī | piscātae | piscāta | |
| genitive | piscātī | piscātae | piscātī | piscātōrum | piscātārum | piscātōrum | |
| dative | piscātō | piscātae | piscātō | piscātīs | |||
| accusative | piscātum | piscātam | piscātum | piscātōs | piscātās | piscāta | |
| ablative | piscātō | piscātā | piscātō | piscātīs | |||
| vocative | piscāte | piscāta | piscātum | piscātī | piscātae | piscāta | |
Etymology 2
From piscor + -tus (forming action nouns)
Noun
piscātus m (genitive piscātūs); fourth declension
- a fishing, the catching of a fish
- (uncountable) fish, the catch of the day
- (figurative) (of a mistress) a catch, find
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | piscātus | piscātūs |
| genitive | piscātūs | piscātuum |
| dative | piscātuī | piscātibus |
| accusative | piscātum | piscātūs |
| ablative | piscātū | piscātibus |
| vocative | piscātus | piscātūs |
Descendants
References
- “piscatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “piscatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “piscatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Adams, James Noel (2007), The regional diversification of Latin, 200 BC - AD 600, page 596:
- Thus piscatus is a verbal noun originally referring to the act of fishing.... Like many abstract verbal nouns piscatus acquired a secondary, concrete, meaning (‘fish’, collective).... The concrete sense is attested first in Plautus (several times), then in Turpilius, Pomponius, Cicero, Varro, Vitruvius, Apuleius and others: it was a mundane usage from the earliest period of attested Latin.