peixe

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Portuguese peixe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpejʃe/ [ˈpej.ʃɪ], /ˈpejʃ/ [ˈpejʃ]
• Rhymes: -ejʃe, -ejʃ
• Hyphenation: pei‧xe

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. (figurative) a mean person

• peixaría
• peixería
• peixeiro
• Peixoto

• “peixe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “peyx” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

• pexe

Inherited from Latin piscem.

peixe m

1. fish

• Pallabreiru Llïonés

• pexe, peyxe

Inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpej.ʃe/

peixe m

1. fish
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 369 (facsimile):

     e pois lauou aq(ue)l peyxe

     Then, she cleaned that fish

• coçar-se con a mão do peixe

• Galician: peixe
• Portuguese: peixe (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "peixe"

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejʃi, (Portugal) -ɐjʃɨ, (Northern and Central Portugal) -ejʃɨ, (Southern Portugal) -eʃɨ, (Brazil, j-dropping) -eʃi
• Hyphenation: pei‧xe

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Galician peixe.

peixe m (plural peixes)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:peixe

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
• Kabuverdianu: pexi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

peixe

1. inflection of peixar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative