Piscator
/pɪsˈkeɪ.tər/noun
A fisher or one who fishes.
Did you know?Piscator comes from Latin *piscari* (“to fish”), ultimately from *piscis* (“fish”), and its same root still swims through words like *fish*’s distant relatives in other Indo-European branches.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*peisk-
“fish”
Latin
Latin
piscis
“fish”
Latin
Latin
piscari
“to fish”
Latin
Latin
piscator
“fisherman”
Middle English
English
piscatour
“fisherman; one who fishes”
Modern English
English
piscator
“a fisher or angler”
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