pieça

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • pieca (before the introduction of ç)

Adverb

pieça

  1. a while ago, a long time ago

Descendants

  • French: piéça

References

  • pieça on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Alternative forms

(manuscript form)

Etymology

From Latin postea

Adverb

pieça

  1. a while ago, a long time ago

Descendants

  • French: piéça

References

Old Leonese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpjet͡sa/
    • (Asturias, "pieza") IPA(key): /ˈpjed͡za/

Noun

pieça f

  1. piece
    • 1245, Ordenances de Oviedo[1]:
      la pieza de la vaca la que maas cara for VI dineros
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    • 1266, "Some notes on the graphic representation of the predorsodental affricate sibilants in medieval Asturian"[2]:
      grant pieza de omnes bonos de la villa
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1279, "Some notes on the graphic representation of the predorsodental affricate sibilants in medieval Asturian"[3]:
      pieça de castannares - de pumares que dixo que lantara
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    • 1294, "Some notes on the graphic representation of the predorsodental affricate sibilants in medieval Asturian"[4]:
      cera uermella una grant pieça que troxi de Roma para seelar
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Descendants