pescado

Galician

Participle

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

1. past participle of pescar

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pesˈka.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pesˈka.du/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /peʃˈka.du/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨʃˈka.du/ [pɨʃˈka.ðu]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨʃˈka.du/ [pɨʃˈka.ðu]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɨʃˈka.du/

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• pescadeiro

Adjective

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

1. fished

Participle

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

1. past participle of pescar

Further reading

• “pescado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pescado”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “pescado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “pescado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Alternative forms

• pescao (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ado

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

Noun

pescado m (plural pescados)

1. (most often uncountable) dead fish intended for consumption; food fish
2. (Latin America, Canary Islands, countable) fish

   Synonym: pez

Derived terms

• cabeza de pescado
• chao, pescao
• hablar cabezas de pescado
• pescado blanco

Related terms

• pesca
• pescadería
• pescadero
• pescador
• pescar
• pesquería
• pesquero
• pez

Participle

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

1. past participle of pescar

Further reading

• “pescado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “pescado”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “pescado”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010

Anagrams

• pecados