🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

pesce

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈpeʃʃe

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fish/fɪʃ/
nounverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #450 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il pesce è fresco e delizioso."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins, living wholly in water.

    "The aquarium was filled with colorful fish swimming gracefully."
  2. 2

    The flesh of fish used as food.

    "We had grilled fish for dinner, which was delicious."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English word 'fisc', which has Proto-Germanic roots (*fiskaz), ultimately tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *pisk-. It has remained remarkably consistent in form and meaning across Germanic languages throughout recorded history.

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