pettia

• petia

Borrowed from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛt.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpɛt̪.t̪i.a]

pettia f (genitive pettiae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) piece, portion

First-declension noun.

• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: pezz
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: pezzo, pezza
  • Sicilian: pezzu, pezza
• Occitano-Romance
  • Old Catalan: peça, pessa, pesa
    • Catalan: peça
• Old French: piece, pece
  • Middle French: piece
    • French: pièce (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: pièche (Jersey)
  • Walloon: pîce
  • → Middle English: pece
    • 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
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: peça
    • Galician: peza
    • Portuguese: peça
  • Spanish: pieza
• → Albanian: pjesë
• → Maltese: biċċa