pettia

Latin

Alternative forms

• petia

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpet.ti.a/, [ˈpɛt̪ːiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpet.ti.a/, [ˈpɛt̪ːiä]

Noun

pettia f (genitive pettiae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) piece, portion

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pettia	pettiae
Genitive	pettiae	pettiārum
Dative	pettiae	pettiīs
Accusative	pettiam	pettiās
Ablative	pettiā	pettiīs
Vocative	pettia	pettiae

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic
  • Lombard: pezz
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: pezzo
  • Sicilian: pezzu, pezza
• Occitano-Romance
  • Old Catalan: peça, pessa, pesa
    • Catalan: peça
• Old French: piece, pece
  • Middle French: piece
    • French: pièce (see there for further descendants)
    • Norman: pièche (Jersey)
  • Walloon: pîce
  • → Middle English: pece
    • English: piece, peece (obsolete)
      • Belizean Creole: pees
      • Sranan Tongo: pisi
      • → Finnish: biisi
      • → Japanese: ピース (pīsu)
    • Yola: peece
    • → Middle Irish: pissa
      • Irish: píosa
    • → Scottish Gaelic: pìos
• West Iberian
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: peça
    • Galician: peza
    • Portuguese: peça
  • Spanish: pieza
• → Albanian: pjesë
• → Maltese: biċċa