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See also: PIC, pić, píč, piç, and pìc

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Clipping of picture

Noun

pic (plural pics or pix)

  1. (informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.
  2. (informal) A movie.
    • 1999, The Variety Insider, page 219:
      Decidedly for adult auds, the pic has definite specialized appeal outside France and should broaden the director's commercial rep and prestige.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

pic (plural pics)

  1. A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizzo.

Noun

pic m (plural pica, definite pici, definite plural picat)

  1. (nonstandard) tip, top, end

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “picërr”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 325

Catalan

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Etymology

Deverbal from picar.

Pronunciation

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

  1. pickaxe
  2. peak (of a mountain)
  3. peak (moment of maximum intensity)
  4. knock, strike, blow
  5. prick, sting
  6. (typography) dot, bullet
  7. (Mallorca) time (occasion)

Synonyms

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin pīcus.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

  1. woodpecker
  2. pick (tool)
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

Probably from Spanish pico.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

  1. peak, summit
Derived terms

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

Middle Irish pic, picc, from Latin pix.

Noun

pic f (genitive singular pice)

  1. pitch, tar

Declension

Declension of pic

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative pic
Vocative a phic
Genitive pice
Dative pic

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an phic
Genitive na pice
Dative leis an bpic

don phic

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pic phic bpic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piti.

Verb

pic ?

  1. to drink

Further reading

  • “pic”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “pić”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

Middle English

Verb

pic

  1. Alternative form of piken

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *pik.

Noun

piċ n

  1. pitch

Declension

Declension of pic (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative piċ piċ
accusative piċ piċ
genitive piċes piċa
dative piċe piċum

Alternative forms

  • pic

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *piccus (“sharp point”).

Noun

pic oblique singular, m (oblique plural pis, nominative singular pis, nominative plural pic)

  1. a sharp point or spike.

Descendants

  • Middle French: pic

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *peťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tis, from *pekʷ-.

Pronunciation

Noun

pic f

  1. furnace, oven

Polish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deverbal from picować.

Noun

pic m inan

  1. (colloquial) fib, hoax, lie
    Synonyms: blaga, oszustwo
Declension
Declension of pic
singular plural
nominative pic pice
genitive picu piców
dative picowi picom
accusative pic pice
instrumental picem picami
locative picu picach
vocative picu pice
Derived terms
adverb
nouns
verb

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pic f

  1. genitive plural of pica

Further reading

  • pic in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pic in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain, maybe from the root *peh₂w- (“few, small”).

Most likely from Vulgar Latin picca, from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”). Eventually influenced by dissimilation by paucus (“few, little”). Compare Albanian pikë (“a drop; a bit”), Sicilian picca (“a bit, a little”), Italian piccolo (“small”), Spanish pequeño (“small”). Compare also French petit (“small”), English pinch.

Noun

pic n (plural picuri)

  1. a drop (of water)

Declension

Declension of pic
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pic picul (niște) picuri picurile
genitive/dative (unui) pic picului (unor) picuri picurilor
vocative picule picurilor

Derived terms

Adverb

pic

  1. little (not much)
    Eu știu spaniolă doar un pic.
    I know Spanish just a little.

Usage notes

Synonyms

See also

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English pike.

Noun

pic f (plural picean)

  1. pike, spear
  2. pickaxe

Derived terms

Further reading

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “pic”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page pic

Slovene

Noun

píc

  1. genitive plural of pica
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