pez

pez

1. instrumental indefinite of pe

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pez (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pix, picem.

• Hyphenation: pez

pez m or f (plural peces)

1. pitch, tar

   Synonym: piche

2. pitch, resin

   Synonyms: recina, resina

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pez”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pez”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pez”, 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), “pez”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pez”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Proto-Iranian *pácu, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *páću, from Proto-Indo-European *péḱu.

• IPA^(key): /pɛz/

pez m

1. sheep

• IPA^(key): /ˈpet͡s/

From Latin picem, accusative of pix.

pez f (usually uncountable)

1. pitch, tar
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 53r:

     Et a tal uertud que ſi la ponẽ ſobre mill peſos de pez faz los feruir por ſu p̃p̃dat biẽ como si estudieſſen a fuego.

     And its virtue is such that if it is put over a thousand weights of pitch, it lights them due to its property, as if they were on fire.

• Spanish: pez

Inherited from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

pez m (plural peces)

1. fish
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, 56v:

     […] ca alli a una laguna q̃ ſe tiene cõ la. en q̃ a unos peces tamannos como un palmo. ⁊ no an eſcama nĩguna.

     […] for in that place there is a pool in which there are large fish, the size of a handspan, and they have no scales whatsoever.

   • Idem, f.92r.

     Et la eſtrella meridional de las dos que ſon en el uientre del pez poſtrimero en la figura de piſces a poder en eſta piedra […]

     And the northern start of the two that are on the belly of the last fish in the figure of Pisces has power over this stone […]

• pescado m

• Ladino: peshkado
• Spanish: pez

From Old Galician-Portuguese pez, from Latin picem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pī́ts (“pitch; resin”). Doublet of piche.

pez m (plural pezes)

1. pitch (dark, extremely viscous material made by distilling tar)

   Synonym: piche

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈpeθ/ [ˈpeθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈpes/ [ˈpes]

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• Rhymes: -eθ
• Rhymes: -es
• Syllabification: pez
• Homophone: (Latin America) pes

Inherited from Old Spanish pez, from Latin picem, from Proto-Indo-European *pī́ts (“pitch; resin”).

pez f (plural peces)

1. pitch, tar

   Synonym: brea

Inherited from Old Spanish pez, from Latin piscem, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-. Compare peje, Italian pesce, Portuguese peixe, Romanian pește.

pez m (plural peces)

1. fish (especially while alive)

   Synonym: peje

2. (informal) idiot, dimwit

   Synonyms: idiota, zonzo

• The noun pez is used when referring to live fish, as opposed to pescado, used to refer to a fish once it has been hooked, taken from the water, cooked, served as food, etc.

• “pez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28