pece

• pecce

From Latin pix, picem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pī́ts (“pitch; resin”). Cognates include Italian pece and English pitch.

pece f (plural picia)

1. pitch, resin
2. tar
3. earwax

• http://infcor.adecec.net/

From Arabic بَيْع (bayʕ).

pece f

1. verbal noun of paca: sale

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 172

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛt͡sɛ]

pece

1. inflection of pec:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

From Latin picem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pī́ts (“pitch; resin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -etʃe
• Hyphenation: pé‧ce

pece f (plural peci)

1. pitch (resinous material)

   Synonym: pegola

• pese, pesse, peace, pease, peise, pice, pise, piece, piese, pecche

Borrowed from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛːs(ə)/

pece (plural peces)

1. piece; morsel; bit

• English: piece, peece (obsolete)
  • Belizean Creole: pees
  • Sranan Tongo: pisi
  • → Finnish: biisi
  • → Irish: píosa
  • → Japanese: ピース (pīsu)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: pìos
• Yola: peece
• → Middle Irish: pissa
  • Irish: píosa
• → Scottish Gaelic: pìos

• “pēce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Compare Ternate bece (“dust”), Indonesian becek (“mud”), and West Makian beti (“mud, swamp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.t͡ʃe/

pece

1. mud
2. sludge

• Betty Litamahuputty (2012) Ternate Malay: Grammar and Texts