Where does “pesca” come from?

pesca (Italian) comes from Italian pescare, from Latin piscor, from Latin Piscis, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

pesca (Italian): peach; fishing; fishing boat

Definitions

  1. peach; fishing; fishing boat

Ancestry of “pesca”, step by step

pesca traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian pescare

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianpescareto fish; to get; to draw
2LatinpiscorI fish
3LatinPiscisthe Fish, Piscis Austrinus constellation
4Proto-Indo-European*peysk-—

via Vulgar Latin pessica

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latinpessica—
2Late Latinpersica—
3Latinpersicumpeach
4LatinPersaeinflection of Persa: ## genitive/dative...

Words derived from “pesca”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- →