Etymograph

English

piscator

Piscator comes from Latin piscor ‘to fish’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpiscor1‘to fish’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpiscātor2
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1838piscator2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin piscator
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English piscator
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1838, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, (please specify the page): “...this was Lady Allerton, no longer the artful Miss…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpiscorWiktionary, Latin piscator‘to fish’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpiscātorWiktionary, English piscator
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1838piscatorWiktionary, English piscator. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1838, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, (please specify the page): “...this was Lady Allerton, no longer the artful Miss…”

Every English word from Latin piscor

Today it means

noun A fisherman; an angler.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “piscator”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin piscator. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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