peza

See also: pezã, pezä, peža, and pežā

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeza/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pe‧za

Adjective

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

1. heavy, onerous, weighty

Antonyms

• malpeza

Derived terms

• pezega

Related terms

• pezo

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛθa̝/, (western) /ˈpɛsa̝/

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 (ed.), 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
4. game piece
5. a piece leather used in shoemaking
6. latrine
7. net
8. a period of time

Derived terms

• despezar
• empezar
• empezo

References

• "peça" in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• 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

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Ludian

Etymology

From .

Noun

peza

1. nest

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Veps

Etymology

From .

Noun

peza

1. nest
2. lair, den

Derived terms

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

References

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “берлога, гнездо, логово”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[1], Petrozavodsk: Periodika