pettia

Latin

Alternative forms

petia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpet.ti.a/, [ˈpɛt̪ːiä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpet.ti.a/, [ˈpɛt̪ːiä]

Noun

pettia f (genitive pettiae); first declension

(Late Latin) piece, portion

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pettia	pettiae
Genitive	pettiae	pettiārum
Dative	pettiae	pettiīs
Accusative	pettiam	pettiās
Ablative	pettiā	pettiīs
Vocative	pettia	pettiae

Descendants

Italian: pezzo
Old French: piece, pece
- Middle French: piece
  - French: pièce
    - → Danish: pjece
    - → Northern Kurdish: piyes
    - → Norwegian:
      Norwegian Bokmål: piece
    - → Ottoman Turkish: پیه‌س (piyes)
      - Turkish: piyes (play - in a theatre)
    - → Romanian: piesă
    - → Russian: пье́са (pʹjésa)
      - → Armenian: պիես (pies)
      - → Georgian: პიესა (ṗiesa)
      - → Kazakh: пьеса (pesa)
    - → Swedish: pjäs
    - → Yiddish: פּיעסע (pyese)
  - Norman: pièche (Jersey)
- Walloon: pîce
- → Middle English: pece, pese, pesse, peace, pease, peise, pice, pise, piece, piese, pecche
  - English: piece, peece
    - Sranan Tongo: pisi
    - → Finnish: biisi
    - → Japanese: ピース (pīsu)
  - Yola: peece
  - → Middle Irish: pissa
    - Irish: píosa
  - → Scottish Gaelic: pìos
Old Occitan:
- Old Catalan: peça, pessa, pesa
  - Catalan: peça
Old Galician-Portuguese: peça
- Galician: peza
- Portuguese: peça
Sicilian: pezzu, pezza
Spanish: pieza
→ Albanian: pjesë
→ Maltese: biċċa

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