pièce

See also: piece

French

Etymology

From Middle French piece, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettya, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pjɛs/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

pièce f (plural pièces)

1. room (in a house, etc)
2. piece
3. (money) coin
4. play (in a theatre)
5. (heraldry) ordinary
6. (law) document, paper
7. patch

Derived terms

• pièce d'estomac

Borrowed terms

• Danish: pjece
• Kurdish: piyes
• Russian: пьеса (pʹjesa)
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: piece
• Swedish: pjäs

Further reading

• “pièce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• épice, épicé