pièce

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Jump to navigation Jump to search

See also: piece

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /pjɛs/
audio (file)

Noun[edit]

pièce f (plural pièces)

room (in a house, etc)
piece
(money) coin
play (in a theatre)
(heraldry) ordinary
(law) document, paper
patch

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

→ Danish: pjece
→ Northern Kurdish: piyes
→ Norwegian:
Norwegian Bokmål: piece
→ Romanian: piesă
→ Russian: пье́са (pʹjésa)
- → Kazakh: пьеса (pʹesa)
→ Swedish: pjäs
→ Turkish: piyes (play - in a theatre)
→ Yiddish: פּיעסע‎ (pyese)

Further reading[edit]

“pièce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
“pièce” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.
“pièce” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Anagrams[edit]

épice, épicé

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=pièce&oldid=67516830"