pie
English
/paɪ/
noun
Definitions
- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
- Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
- (Northeastern US) A pizza.
- (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- (letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
- (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
- A pie chart.
- (slang) The vulva.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pye (pie, magpie) borrowed from Latin pīca (magpie, jay).
Origin
Latin
pīca
Gloss
magpie, jay
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- baking English
- boy English
- cow English
- cowpie English
- crust English
- dish English
- face English
- fight English
- fly English
- hole English
- honey English
- honeypie English
- maker English
- making English
- pica English
- pie baking English
- pieboy English
- piecrust English
- piedish English
- pieface English
- piefight English
- piehole English
- pieless English
- pielike English
- piemaker English
- piemaking English
- pieman English
- pieplant English
- pieshop English
- piet English
- piewoman English
- plant English
- pot English
- potpie English
- pyet English
- pyot English
- sea English
- sea pie English
- shoo English
- shoofly pie English
- shop English
- sugar English
- sugarpie English
- tree English
- treepie English
- woman English
- pai Finnish
- peca Latin
- pīca Latin
- cipaille French
- pie-grièche French
- pay Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)peyk- Proto-Indo-European
- eplepai Norwegian Bokmål
- pai Norwegian Bokmål
- paj Swedish
- äppelpaj Swedish
- パイ Japanese
- eplepai Norwegian Nynorsk
- pai Norwegian Nynorsk
- peye Middle English
- pie Middle English
- pye Middle English
- pyes Middle English
- pie Old French
- kue pai Indonesian
- pai Indonesian
- pei Welsh
- peis Welsh
- 批 Chinese
- 파이 Korean
- pai Tok Pisin
- Boi Pennsylvania German
- boy
- fly
- cow
- pot
- sea
- shop
- tree
- shoo
- dish
- pyot
- face
- pica
- pyet
- piet
- hole
- woman
- maker
- plant
- crust
- sugar
- honey
- fight
- pieman
- cowpie
- making
- baking
- pieboy
- potpie
- pieface
- pielike
- sea pie
- pieless
- treepie
- piedish
- pieshop
- piehole
- pieplant
- piecrust
- piewoman
- honeypie
- piemaker
- piefight
- sugarpie
- piemaking
- pie baking
- shoofly pie