pied

English

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective
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 terms
Translations

References
  • pied at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pied

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pi

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pied

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pie

Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Noun

pied m

  1. foot

French

Etymology

From Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pes, pedem, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form. Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese pé, and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا‎ (pâ) etc.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pje/
  • audio(file)

Noun

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 terms

Descendants
  • Haitian Creole: pye

Further reading

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French pié.

Noun

pied m (plural pieds)

  1. foot

Descendants

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French pied.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /piˈed/

Noun

pied (nominative plural pieds)

  1. (unit of measure) foot

Declension
declension of pied
singular plural
nominative pied pieds
genitive pieda piedas
dative piede piedes
accusative piedi piedis
vocative 1 o pied! o pieds!
predicative 2 piedu piedus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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