pedazo
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish pedaço, from Latin pittacium, from Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /peˈdaθo/ [peˈð̞a.θo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /peˈdaso/ [peˈð̞a.so]
- Rhymes: -aθo
Noun
pedazo m (plural pedazos)
- piece, chunk, hunk, bit, bite (a part of a larger whole)
- patch (e.g. of sky, cloth, skin, space)
- scrap (e.g. of paper, information)
- lump (e.g. of metal, rock, clay, wood)
- slab (e.g. of meat, of cheese)
- shard (e.g. of glass, ice)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Tagalog: piraso
Further reading
- “pedazo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
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- Spanish terms inherited from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aθo
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
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