EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /paɪd/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪd

Etymology 1Edit

From archaic pie (magpie), from Old French pie, from Latin pica.

AdjectiveEdit

 
a pied avocet

pied (comparative more pied, superlative most pied)

  1. Having two or more colors, especially black and white.
    Synonyms: bicolor, nun-coloured, particoloured, piebald
  2. Decorated or colored in blotches.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • pied at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

pied

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pi

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

pied

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pie

AnagramsEdit

Franco-ProvençalEdit

NounEdit

pied m

  1. foot

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form.

Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese , and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا() etc.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pied m (plural pieds)

  1. (anatomy) foot
    Synonyms: (slang) panard, (informal) peton
  2. leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it)
  3. an old unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres
  4. (Quebec, etc.) Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres)
  5. (poetry) foot

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Haitian Creole: pye

Further readingEdit

Middle FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French pié.

NounEdit

pied m (plural pieds)

  1. foot

DescendantsEdit

VolapükEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French pied.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pied (nominative plural pieds)

  1. (unit of measure) foot

DeclensionEdit