pettia

Latin

Alternative forms

• petia

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpet.ti.a/, [ˈpɛt̪ːiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpet.ti.a/, [ˈpɛt̪ːiä]

Noun

pettia f (genitive pettiae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) piece, portion

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pettia	pettiae
Genitive	pettiae	pettiārum
Dative	pettiae	pettiīs
Accusative	pettiam	pettiās
Ablative	pettiā	pettiīs
Vocative	pettia	pettiae

Descendants

• Italian: pezzo
• Old French: piece, pece
  • Middle French: piece
    • French: pièce
      • → Danish: pjece
      • → Northern Kurdish: piyes
      • → Norwegian:

        Norwegian Bokmål: piece

      • → Ottoman Turkish: پیه‌س (piyes)
        • Turkish: piyes (play - in a theatre)
      • → Romanian: piesă
      • → Russian: пье́са (pʹjésa)
        • → Armenian: պիես (pies)
        • → Georgian: პიესა (ṗiesa)
        • → Kazakh: пьеса (pesa)
      • → Swedish: pjäs
      • → Yiddish: פּיעסע (pyese)
    • Norman: pièche (Jersey)
  • Walloon: pîce
  • → Middle English: pece, pese, pesse, peace, pease, peise, pice, pise, piece, piese, pecche
    • English: piece, peece
      • Sranan Tongo: pisi
      • → Finnish: biisi
      • → Japanese: ピース (pīsu)
    • Yola: peece
    • → Middle Irish: pissa
      • Irish: píosa
    • → Scottish Gaelic: pìos
• Old Occitan:
  • Old Catalan: peça, pessa, pesa
    • Catalan: peça
• Old Galician-Portuguese: peça
  • Galician: peza
  • Portuguese: peça
• Sicilian: pezzu, pezza
• Spanish: pieza
• → Albanian: pjesë
• → Maltese: biċċa