pec

See also: PEC, peć, pēc, peč, peč̣, peç, печ, and печь

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

Noun

pec (plural pecs)

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The pectoralis major muscle.

   He's flexing his pecs at anyone who'll look.

   • 2022 March 5, Alex Hawgood, “What Is ‘Bigorexia’?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The quest for perfect pecs is so strong that psychiatrists now sometimes refer to it as “bigorexia,” a form of muscle dysmorphia exhibited mostly by men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle.

Translations

a pectoral muscle

• Finnish: rintalihas (fi)
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Etymology 2

Latin pecūnia (“money”)

Noun

pec (uncountable)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete, Eton College) Money.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• CEP, CPE, ECP, EPC, PCE, cep, pce

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *paitsa, from Proto-Indo-European *peiḱ. Related to Old Norse feigr (“close to death”), Lithuanian paĩkas (“stupid”).

Adjective

pec (feminine pece)

1. shortsighted, blind

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Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech pec, from Proto-Slavic *peťь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛts/

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• Rhymes: -ɛts

Noun

pec f

1. oven, furnace
2. furnace (device that heats materials being processed in a factory)

Derived terms

• pecivál
• pecní

Related terms

• péct
• pekař

Verb

pec

1. (archaic) second-person singular imperative of péct

   Synonym: peč

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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French

Etymology

Clipping of pectoral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛk/

Noun

pec m (plural pecs)

1. (informal, usually in the plural) pec (pectoralis major muscle)

   Synonym: pecto

See also

• abdo

Further reading

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

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *peťь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛt͡s/

Noun

pec f (genitive singular pece, nominative plural pece, genitive plural pecí, declension pattern of dlaň)

1. oven

Declension

Declension of pec

	singular	plural
nominative	pec	pece
genitive	pece	pecí
dative	peci	peciam
accusative	pec	pece
locative	peci	peciach
instrumental	pecou	pecami

Derived terms

• pecný
• pecový
• piecka

Further reading

• “pec”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024