pettia

Latin

Alternative forms

• petia

Etymology

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

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

• Old French: piece, pece
  • Middle French: piece
    • French: pièce (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: pièche (Jersey)
  • Walloon: pîce
  • → Middle English: pece
    • English: piece, peece (obsolete)
      • Belizean Creole: pees
      • Sranan Tongo: pisi
      • → Finnish: biisi
      • → Japanese: ピース (pīsu)
    • Yola: peece
    • → Middle Irish: pissa
      • Irish: píosa
    • → Scottish Gaelic: pìos
• Italian: pezzo
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: pèça
  • Old Catalan: peça, pessa, pesa
    • Catalan: peça
• Old Galician-Portuguese: peça
  • Galician: peza
  • Portuguese: peça
• Spanish: pieza
• → Albanian: pjesë
• → Maltese: biċċa