Etymology

pisci-

Today it means: Related to fish. Full definition →

Latin piscis ← Proto-Italic *piskis ← Proto-Indo-European *péysks
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péysks
  2. Proto-Italic*piskis
  3. Latinpiscis
  4. English todaypisci-

Derived from Latin piscis (“fish”). By surface analysis, Latin pisc- + -i-.

Words from the same roots

Latinpiscis all →

pisciform

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.