See also: Pezza

Italian edit

Etymology edit

From a Late Vulgar Latin *pettia, *pettium, from Late Latin pettia (portion). Compare French pièce, Catalan and Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Romanian pâță, Slovene peča.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

pezza f (plural pezze)

  1. bolt (of cloth)
  2. patch (of fabric)
  3. rag
  4. (heraldry) ordinary
    le pezze onorevolithe honourable/honorable ordinaries

Derived terms edit

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Sicilian edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Italian pezza.

Noun edit

pezza f (plural pezzi)

  1. piece
    Synonym: feḍḍa
  2. piece of cloth
    pezza vagnatadimwit (dull person) (literally, “wet cloth”)
    fari pezzi càudi ed ogghiuto do things on the spot (literally, “to prepare hot cloths and oil”)
    pezza di càntaru (literally chamber pot towel)
    1. patch (small piece of cloth sewed to a piece of clothing to cover a hole)
      mèttiri na pezzato patch up
      mittiricci la pezza e l'unguentuto work, be committed in something (literally, “to put the patch and the ointment”)
      fari di <> pezza di pedito beat <> up (literally, “to turn <> into shoe patches”)
      Nun è pezza chi si cusi e scusi.
      It's something stable, indissoluble
      (literally, “It's not a patch that can be sewed and unsewed.”)
      1. (figurative) patch, remedy
      2. (hairdressing) razor strop
        In full: pezza di la varva
      3. (cooking) potholder
    2. a rag (tattered cloth); (in the plural) rags
      jiri a lu spitali pri pezzi(please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “to go to the hospital for rags”)
      cu na pezza 'n culuragged (of a person, wearing rags) (literally, “with a patch in the arse”)
      cu na pezza davanti e n'àutra arreri(same as above) (literally, “with a patch in front and one behind”)
      nun aviri na pezzato be extremely poor (literally, “to not have a rag”)
  3. (uncountable) rag (material)
    di pezzamade out of rag, (figuratively) fake, faulty
    pupu di pezzaragdoll, (figurative) stupid person
    ciuri di pezzafake flowers
    lingua di pezzastammerer, someone with a speech disorder (literally, “faulty tongue”)
  4. portion of cheese; wheel, block
    • 1371–1381, Angelo Senisio, Il Caternu, volume 1, page 232, line 2:
      Item per pani thumini iij et vinu quartari v et furmaiu pecia j per lu tundiri tr. x.
      Like for bread, thumini 3 and wine quarters 5 and cheese wheel 1 for the wool tr. 10.
  5. coin, more or less 5 lire
  6. cultivated field
    pezza di cacòcciuliartichoke field
    pezza di fràulistrawberry field
  7. (botany) bud (unfolded blossom)

Descendants edit

  • Maltese: biċċa

References edit

  • Traina, Antonino (1868), “pezza”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, pages 3026–3027
  • pezza”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini