different between piscatory vs piscator

English

Etymology

From Latin pisc?tor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).

Adjective

piscatory (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century

     The Ribble and the Aire roll down, as yet unpolluted by dyers' chemistry; tenanted by merry trouts and piscatory otters.

2. Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 4,

     The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it.

Synonyms

• piscatorial

Related terms

• piscatory ring

Translations

References

• “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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pisc?tor.

Noun

piscator (plural piscators)

1. (archaic, formal) A fisherman; an angler.
   • 1865, John William Carleton (editor), The Sporting Review

     The canes themselves tower up, many of them, for more than thirty feet in height, and are at the lower joints as thick as a man's arm, though millions of lesser growth are there, to furnish fishing-poles for all the piscators alive.

   • 1896, The Fishing Gazette

     On the other hand, the sundry species (and these represent the majority) which will take a 'personal vanity' fly always move in shoals, and a little observation will show the piscators that they bite for two reasons only […]

Related terms

• piscatrix

Anagrams

• apricots, patricos

Latin

Etymology

From piscor +? -tor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pis?ka?.tor/, [p?s??kä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pis?ka.tor/, [pis?k??t??r]

Noun

pisc?tor m (genitive pisc?t?ris, feminine pisc?trix); third declension

1. fisher, fisherman

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Verb

pisc?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of piscor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of piscor

References

• piscator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• piscator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• piscator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• piscator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette