Pi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Mandarin 郫 (Pí).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Pi

  1. (historical) A county of Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
    • 2017, Christian P. Sorace, “The Utopia of Urban Planning”, in Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake‎[2], Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
      In addition to my own residential complex, I also engaged in ethnographic observation and conducted interviews with Party cadres and local residents in four similar apartment complexes in Dujiangyan and two in neighboring Pi County.

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References

  1. ^ cf. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pihsien or P’i-hsien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1472, column 2

Further reading

Anagrams

Bourbonnais-Berrichon

Noun

Pi m[1]

  1. woodpecker

References

  1. ^ Paul Duchon (1904) Grammaire et Dictionnaire Du Patois Bourbonnais (canton De Vareness) (in French and Bourbonnais-Berrichon), page 90

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [piː]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

Pi n (strong, genitive Pis or Pi, plural Pis)

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. (mathematics) pi, an important constant
    Synonym: Kreiszahl f

Declension

Declension of Pi [neuter, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein das Pi die Pis
genitive eines des Pis, Pi der Pis
dative einem dem Pi den Pis
accusative ein das Pi die Pis

Further reading

  • “Pi” in Duden online

Latin

Proper noun

Pī

  1. genitive/vocative singular of Pius
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