pescado

Meaning

Noun

1. (masculine) fish that has been caught; food fish
2. (historical, masculine) municipal service related to fishing and fishers
3. (historical, masculine) tax related to food fish

Adj

fished

Verb

past participle of pescar

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pescar

1. to fish (try to catch fish)
2. to remove an object from a body of water
3. to fish (attempt to find an object by searching among other objects)
4. (informal) to understand
5. (Brazil, idiomatic, intransitive) to doze, to slumber (to sleep very briefly and unintentionally)

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Concepts

fish

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fish caught

Synonyms

peixe

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Translations

pesce

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vis

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ψάρι

poisson

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pescado

🎣

pez

balık

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peis

peisson

ماسی

peix

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Fisch

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-e

Fisch -es

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pesˈka.du/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: piscātus

In summary

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pescado (“fish”), from Latin piscātus (“fished”), perfect passive participle of piscor (“I fish”). By surface analysis, pescar (“to fish”) + -ado.