peixe
التعريفات والمعاني
== Galician ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Portuguese peixe.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈpejʃe/ [ˈpej.ʃɪ], /ˈpejʃ/ [ˈpejʃ]
Rhymes: -ejʃe, -ejʃ
Hyphenation: pei‧xe
=== Noun ===
peixe m (plural peixes)
a fish
(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:
trout
(figurative) a mean person
==== Derived terms ====
peixaría
peixería
peixeiro
Peixoto
=== References ===
Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “peixe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “peixe”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “peixe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “peixe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “peixe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
== Leonese ==
=== Alternative forms ===
pexe
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Latin piscem.
=== Noun ===
peixe m
fish
=== References ===
“peixe”, in Pallabreiru Llïonés [Leonese Dictionary] (in Spanish), 2026
== Old Galician-Portuguese ==
=== Alternative forms ===
pexe, peyxe
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈpei̯.ʃe/
=== Noun ===
peixe m (plural peixes)
fish
Synonym: pescado
==== Derived terms ====
coçar-se con a mão do peixe
==== Descendants ====
Galician: peixe
Ladino: peshe
Portuguese: peixe (see there for further descendants)
=== Further reading ===
Ferreiro, Manuel (2014–2026), “peixe”, in Universo Cantigas: edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa [Universo Cantigas: critical edition of Galician-Portuguese medieval poetry] (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejʃi, (Portugal) -ɐjʃɨ, (Northern and Central Portugal) -ejʃɨ, (Southern Portugal) -eʃɨ, (Brazil, j-dropping) -eʃi
Hyphenation: pei‧xe
=== Etymology 1 ===
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peixe, inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare Galician peixe.
==== Noun ====
peixe m (plural peixes)
fish (cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:peixe
(obsolete, now only in compounds) fish (any animal that lives exclusively in water)
===== Derived terms =====
===== Related terms =====
===== Descendants =====
Guinea-Bissau Creole: pis
Kabuverdianu: pexi
=== Etymology 2 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Verb ====
peixe
inflection of peixar:
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
=== Further reading ===
“peixe”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“peixe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026