pece

• pecce

From Latin pix, picem, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”). Cognates include Italian pece and English pitch.

pece f (plural picia)

1. pitch, resin
2. tar
3. earwax

• http://infcor.adecec.net/

• IPA^(key): /pɛt͡sɛ/

pece

1. plural of pec
2. genitive singular of pec
3. accusative plural of pec
4. vocative plural of pec

From Latin picem, from Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -etʃe
• Hyphenation: pé‧ce

pece f (plural peci)

1. pitch (resinous material)

   Synonym: pegola

• pese, pesse, peace, pease, peise, pice, pise, piece, piese, pecche

Borrowed from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛːs(ə)/

pece (plural peces)

1. piece; morsel; bit

• English: piece, peece
  • Sranan Tongo: pisi
  • → Finnish: biisi
  • → Japanese: ピース (pīsu)
• Yola: peece
• → Middle Irish: pissa
  • Irish: píosa
• → Scottish Gaelic: pìos

• “pēce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Compare Ternate bece (“dust”), Indonesian becek (“mud”), and West Makian beti (“mud, swamp”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.t͡ʃe/

pece

1. mud
2. sludge

• Betty Litamahuputty (2012) Ternate Malay: Grammar and Texts