pescado

pescado (feminine pescada, masculine plural pescados, feminine plural pescadas)

1. past participle of pescar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pescado (“fish”), from Latin piscātus (“fished”), perfect passive participle of piscor (“I fish”). By surface analysis, pescar (“to fish”) +‎ -ado.

• Rhymes: -adu
• Hyphenation: pes‧ca‧do

pescado m (plural pescados)

1. fish that has been caught; food fish
2. (historical) municipal service related to fishing and fishers
3. (historical) tax related to food fish

• pescadeiro

pescado (feminine pescada, masculine plural pescados, feminine plural pescadas)

1. fished

pescado (feminine pescada, masculine plural pescados, feminine plural pescadas)

1. past participle of pescar

• “pescado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “pescado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

From Latin piscātus, perfect passive participle of piscor (“to fish”).

• IPA^(key): /pesˈkado/ [pesˈka.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: pes‧ca‧do

pescado m (plural pescados)

1. fish that has been caught; food fish

pescado (feminine pescada, masculine plural pescados, feminine plural pescadas)

1. past participle of pescar

• “pescado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• pecados