piscatory - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Latin piscātor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).
piscatory (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “5, "Twelfth Century"”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
The Ribble and the Aire roll down, as yet unpolluted by dyers' chemistry; tenanted by merry trouts and piscatory otters.
- Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
of, about, or pertaining to the act of fishing
- Armenian: ձկնորսական (hy) (jknorsakan)
- Bulgarian: риболовен (bg) (riboloven)
- Danish: (compounds) fiske- (da)
- Finnish: kalastus- (fi)
- Greek: αλιευτικός (el) (alieftikós)
- Italian: piscatorio m
- Japanese: 釣りの (ja) (tsuri no)
- Macedonian: ри́барски (ríbarski), риболо́вен (ribolóven)
- Polish: rybacki (pl)
- Russian: рыба́цкий (ru) (rybáckij), рыболове́цкий (ru) (rybolovéckij), рыболо́вный (ru) (rybolóvnyj), рыба́чий (ru) (rybáčij)
- Swedish: fiskar- (sv), fiske- (sv)
- “piscatory”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.