pisciculus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *péysks

Proto-Italic *piskis

Latin piscis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin pisciculus

From piscis (“fish”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

pisciculus m (genitive pisciculī); second declension

1. diminutive of piscis (“fish”)
2. minnow
3. tiddler
4. In plural, an early name for Christians, in reference to the waters of baptism, and in allusion to the vesica piscis

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pisciculus	pisciculī
genitive	pisciculī	pisciculōrum
dative	pisciculō	pisciculīs
accusative	pisciculum	pisciculōs
ablative	pisciculō	pisciculīs
vocative	piscicule	pisciculī

References

• “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pisciculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.