píosa

See also: pìosa

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish pissa, borrowed from Middle English pece, from Anglo-Norman piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”). Doublet of cuid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲiːsˠə/

Noun

píosa m (genitive singular píosa, nominative plural píosaí)

1. piece, bit (part of a larger whole; artistic creation)
2. patch (on clothing, cloth)
3. piecework
4. literary or musical composition
5. coin
6. (nautical) bailing-can, bailer

Declension

Declension of píosa

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative píosa píosaí Vocative a phíosa a phíosaí Genitive píosa píosaí Dative píosa píosaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an píosa na píosaí Genitive an phíosa na bpíosaí Dative leis an bpíosa don phíosa leis na píosaí

Derived terms

• píosa croise (“florin”)
• píosa crosach (“florin”)
• píosa lóin (“lunch-packet”)
• píosa ordanáis (“cannon”)
• píosa páipéir (“piece of paper”)
• tríd an bpíosa (“on the whole”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
píosa	phíosa	bpíosa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “píosa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “písa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “píosa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 543