peche

See also: Peche, péché, peché, pèche, pêche, and pêché

Chuukese

Noun

peche

1. leg, foot (of humans and birds)

Galician

Verb

peche

1. inflection of pechar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French péché (“sin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /peʃe/

Noun

peche

1. (religion) sin

Middle English

Alternative forms

• peske (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French pesche, from Old French pesche, from Late Latin persica, for Classical mālum persicum (literally “Persian apple”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛːt͡ʃ(ə)/

Noun

peche (plural peches)

1. A peach (fruit of the tree Prunus persica)
2. (rare) A peach tree.

Descendants

• English: peach
• Scots: peach

References

• “pēche, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Spanish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

peche

1. inflection of pechar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

From Classical Nahuatl.

Adjective

peche m or f (masculine and feminine plural peches)

1. (El Salvador) skinny; skin and bones

Noun

peche m or f by sense (plural peches)

1. (El Salvador) skinny person; skin and bones

Further reading

• “peche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014