pescar

From Vulgar Latin *piscāre, from Latin piscārī, present active infinitive of piscor.

pescar (first-person singular indicative present pesco, past participle pescáu)

1. to fish

• pexe

• peixcar

From Latin piscārī, a verb based on piscis (“a fish”).

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pəsˈka/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pesˈkaɾ/

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, past participle pescat)

1. to fish

• “pescar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pescar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “pescar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pescar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pescar, from Vulgar Latin *piscāre, from Latin piscārī, present active infinitive of piscor.

• IPA^(key): /pesˈkaɾ/

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, first-person singular preterite pesquei, past participle pescado)

1. to fish

   Non se pescan troitas con bragas enxoitas (proverb) ― You won't fish trouts with dry pants

2. (figurative) to catch, grasp; capture

   Synonyms: cachar, capturar, coller

• Note: pesc- are changed to pesqu- before front vowels (e).

• “pescar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• “pescar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pescar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pescar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pescar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pescar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Old Occitan pescar, from Vulgar Latin *piscāre, from Latin piscārī, present active infinitive of piscor, from piscis (“a fish”).

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pescar

1. to fish

• peis
• pescador

From Old Portuguese pescar, from Vulgar Latin *piscāre.

• Hyphenation: pes‧car

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, first-person singular preterite pesquei, past participle pescado)

1. to fish (try to catch fish)
2. to remove an object from a body of water
3. to fish (attempt to find an object by searching among other objects)
4. (informal) to understand
5. inflection of pescar:
   1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive
   2. first/third-person singular personal infinitive

• păscar

From Latin piscārius.

pescar m (plural pescari)

1. fisher, fisherman

From Vulgar Latin *piscāre, from Latin piscārī, present active infinitive of piscor, from piscis (“a fish”).

• IPA^(key): /pesˈkaɾ/ [pesˈkaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pes‧car

pescar (first-person singular present pesco, first-person singular preterite pesqué, past participle pescado)

1. to fish
2. to angle
3. (colloquial) to get

   Synonym: coger

4. (colloquial) to catch

   Synonym: captar

5. (colloquial) to mind, pay attention to (a person)

   Synonym: tomar en cuenta

6. (colloquial) to search, or fish for information
7. (colloquial) to screw, to get action (have sex)

• “pescar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014