pied

• IPA^(key): /paɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

From archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pica.

pied (comparative more pied, superlative most pied)

1. Having two or more colors, especially black and white.

   Synonyms: bicolor, nun-coloured, particoloured, piebald

2. Decorated or colored in blotches.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     pied coats

   • a. 1645, John Milton, “L’Allegro”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 33:

     Meadows trim with Daiſies pide,

• “pied”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pied

1. simple past and past participle of pi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pied

1. simple past and past participle of pie

• Diep, Pedi, pedi, pedi-, pide

Inherited from Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form. Doublet of foot.

Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese pé, and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا (pâ) etc.

• IPA^(key): /pje/

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pied m (plural pieds)

1. (anatomy) foot

   Synonyms: (slang) panard, (informal) peton

2. leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it)
3. an old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres
4. (Quebec, etc.) Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres)
5. (poetry) foot

• Haitian Creole: pye

• “pied”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pié

From Old French pié.

pied m (plural pieds)

1. foot

• French: pied

Borrowed from French pied.

• IPA^(key): /piˈed/

pied (nominative plural pieds)

1. (unit of measure) foot