pisa

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Pisa, Italy, a historical center of ceramics manufacture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

pisa f (uncountable)

1. earthenware
2. crockery

Further reading

• “pisa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pisa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “pisa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Etymology 2

Verb

pisa

1. inflection of pisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

Etymology

Compare Spanish pieza.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pi‧sa

Noun

pisa

1. (dated) a piece
2. (music) a musical composition
3. (of electronics, electrical, mechanical) a part or a component
   1. (by extension) an integrated circuit; electronic component

Verb

pisa

1. to break into pieces from whole

Chickasaw

Verb

pisa

1. to see

Galician

Verb

pisa

1. inflection of pisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Noun

pisa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pisum

References

• “pisa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pisa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• pisa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pisa”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “pisa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pisa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “pisa”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Lithuanian

Verb

pisa

1. third-person singular present of pisti
2. third-person plural present of pisti

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

pisa

1. third-person singular present of pisaś

Synonyms

• pišo

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pi‧sa
• Homophones: piza, pizza, Pisa

Verb

pisa

1. inflection of pisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin root *pīsāre, from Latin pīnsāre, present active infinitive of pīnsō; compare Aromanian chisedz, chisari. Akin to Spanish pisar and Portuguese pisar.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

a pisa (third-person singular present pisează, past participle pisat) 1st conj.

1. to pound, pummel
2. to grind
3. to bother

Conjugation

Derived terms

• pisare
• pisătură

Related terms

• păsat

See also

• pișa
• piuă
• măcina

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisa/
• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: pi‧sa

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pisar.

Noun

pisa f (plural pisas)

1. tread; step
2. stamp (act of stamping or ficking)
3. (slang) brothel

Etymology 2

Verb

pisa

1. inflection of pisar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pisa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014