pie

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.1.3 See also 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 2 Esperanto 2.1 Adverb 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Etymology 3.3 Noun 4 Italian 4.1 Adjective 5 Latin 5.1 Adjective 5.2 Adverb 6 Latvian 6.1 Preposition 7 Mandarin 7.1 Pinyin syllable 7.1.1 Usage notes 8 Spanish 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Noun 8.3.1 Synonyms 8.3.2 Derived terms 8.4 Verb

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• (UK) IPA: /pʌɪ/
• (US) enPR: pī, IPA: /paɪ/, SAMPA: /paI/
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• Homophones: pi, π
• Rhymes: -aɪ

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, unknown origin.

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pie (countable and uncountable; plural pies)

1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.

   The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.

2. Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

   Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.

3. (Northeastern US) Pizza.
4. (letterpress typography) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
5. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.

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• pastie
• pasty

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to pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)

1. (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

   I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.

2. (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old French pie, from Latin pica, feminine of picus (“‘woodpecker’”)

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pie (plural pies)

1. (obsolete) Magpie.

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From Hindi  (pāī), “‘quarter’”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā).

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pie (plural pie or pies)

1. (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a Rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 117:

     I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.

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pie

1. Piously.

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• IPA: /pi/, SAMPA: /pi/

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From Latin pica.

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pie f. (plural pies)

1. Magpie.

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pie f.

1. Feminine plural form of pio

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pie

1. vocative masculine singular of pius

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pius (comparative magis pius, superlative piisimus)

1. piously, devoutly
2. dutifully, loyally

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pie

1. At.

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pie

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of three tones, piē, piě, or piè.

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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

From Latin pes, pedis. Compare Catalan peu, Esperanto piedo, French pied, Ido pedo, Interlingua pede, Italian piede, Latin pes, Latvian pēda, Lithuanian pėdės, Portuguese pé, Sardinian pei

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• IPA: /pje/

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pie m. (plural pies)

1. foot.

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• pata

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pie (infinitive: piar)

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of piar.