Where does “pescar” come from?

pescar (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese pescar, from Vulgar Latin piscare, from Latin piscari, from Latin piscor, from Latin Piscis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

pescar (Galician): to fish; to catch, grasp; capture

Definitions

  1. to fish; to catch, grasp; capture

Ancestry of “pescar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesepescar—
2Vulgar Latinpiscaresecond-person singular present active imperative...
3Latinpiscaripresent active infinitive of piscor; to fish
4LatinpiscorI fish
5LatinPiscisthe Fish, Piscis Austrinus constellation
6Proto-Indo-European*peysk-—

Words derived from “pescar”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- →Every word from Latin Piscis →Every word from Latin piscor →