peza

See also: pezã, pezä, peža, pežā, and pęza

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeza/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pe‧za

Adjective

peza (accusative singular pezan, plural pezaj, accusative plural pezajn)

1. heavy, onerous, weighty

Antonyms

• malpeza

Derived terms

• pezega

Related terms

• pezo

---

Galician

Etymology

Attested in local medieval documents as peza (969); from Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese peça, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kʷesdis. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Welsh peth, Irish cuid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛθa̝/, (western) /ˈpɛsa̝/

Noun

peza f (plural pezas)

1. piece, fragment, part, component of a larger or composite object
2. a piece of land
   • 1278, Emilio Duro Peña (ed.), El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 290:

     una leyra con una peça de monte

     a farmland patch with a piece of uncultivated land

3. subset; group
   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:

     que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogal

     that from this city [Ourense] had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal

4. game piece
5. a piece leather used in shoemaking
6. latrine
7. net
8. each one of the fixed periods of time allotted for the use of a mill

Derived terms

• despezar
• empezar
• empezo

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “peça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “peza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “peza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “peza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

---

Ludian

Etymology

From .

Noun

peza

1. nest

---

Veps

Etymology

From .

Noun

peza

1. nest
2. lair, den

Derived terms

• grähkänpeza
• hijamanpeza
• ilopeza
• mezipeza
• mezjaižpeza
• raudpeza
• unipeza
• pezakund

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “берлога, гнездо, логово”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika