peza

See also: pezã, pezä, peža, pežā, and pęza

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeza/

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• Rhymes: -eza
• Syllabification: pe‧za

Adjective

peza (accusative singular pezan, plural pezaj, accusative plural pezajn)

1. heavy, onerous, weighty

Antonyms

• malpeza

Derived terms

• pezega

Related terms

• pezo

Galician

Alternative forms

• peça (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Attested in local medieval documents as peza (969); from Old Galician-Portuguese peça, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian and Sicilian pezza, Welsh peth, Irish cuid.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛθa/ [ˈpɛ.θɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈpɛθa/ [ˈpɛ.θɐ]
• IPA^(key): (seseo) /ˈpɛsa/ [ˈpɛ.sɐ]

 

• Rhymes: -ɛθa

• Rhymes: -ɛθa
• Rhymes: -ɛsa

• Hyphenation: pe‧za

Noun

peza f (plural pezas)

1. piece, fragment, part, component of a larger or composite object
2. a piece of land
   • 1278, Emilio Duro Peña, editor, El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 290:

     una leyra con una peça de monte

     a farmland patch with a piece of uncultivated land

3. subset; group
   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:

     que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogal

     that from this city [Ourense] had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal

4. game piece
5. a piece leather used in shoemaking
6. latrine
7. net
8. each one of the fixed periods of time allotted for the use of a mill

Derived terms

• despezar
• empezar
• empezo

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “peça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “peza”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “peza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “peza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “peza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

Noun

peza

1. nest

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

Noun

peza

1. nest
2. lair, den

Inflection

Inflection of peza (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing.	peza
genitive sing.	pezan
partitive sing.	pezad
partitive plur.	pezoid
	singular	plural
nominative	peza	pezad
accusative	pezan	pezad
genitive	pezan	pezoiden
partitive	pezad	pezoid
essive-instructive	pezan	pezoin
translative	pezaks	pezoikš
inessive	pezas	pezoiš
elative	pezaspäi	pezoišpäi
illative	pezaha pezha	pezoihe
adessive	pezal	pezoil
ablative	pezalpäi	pezoilpäi
allative	pezale	pezoile
abessive	pezata	pezoita
comitative	pezanke	pezoidenke
prolative	pezadme	pezoidme
approximative I	pezanno	pezoidenno
approximative II	pezannoks	pezoidennoks
egressive	pezannopäi	pezoidennopäi
terminative I	pezahasai pezhasai	pezoihesai
terminative II	pezalesai	pezoilesai
terminative III	pezassai	—
additive I	pezahapäi pezhapäi	pezoihepäi
additive II	pezalepäi	pezoilepäi

Derived terms

• grähkänpeza
• hijamanpeza
• ilopeza
• mezipeza
• mezjaižpeza
• pezakund
• raudpeza
• unipeza

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “берлога, гнездо, логово”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika