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piscium

piscium is a Latin form of piscis, meaning “fish”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 47 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.118: … ae. in hac insula extrema est fons aquae dulcis, cui nomen Arethusa est, incredibili magnitudine, plenissimus piscium, qui fluctu totus operiretur nisi munitione ac mole lapidum diiunctus esset a mari.

Plautus, Pseudolus 1.2.169: ego eo ín macellum, ut píscium quidquíd ibist pretio praéstinem.

Jerome, Epistolae 60.4: … i, tam innumerabiles populi et tantarum gentium multitudines quam variae linguis, habitu tam vestis et armis? Piscium ritu ac lucustarum et velut muscae et culices conterebantur; absque notitia enim creatoris sui omnis homo pec …

All forms of piscis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.