píosa

See also: pìosa

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish pissa, borrowed from Middle English pece, from Anglo-Norman piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā‎, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”). Doublet of cuid.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲiːsˠə/

Noun

píosa m (genitive singular píosa, nominative plural píosaí)

  1. piece, bit (part of a larger whole; artistic creation)
    1. patch (on clothing, cloth)
    2. piecework
    3. literary or musical composition
    4. coin
    5. (nautical) bailing-can, bailer

Declension
Declension of píosa

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative píosa píosaí
Vocative a phíosa a phíosaí
Genitive píosa píosaí
Dative píosa píosaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an píosa na píosaí
Genitive an phíosa na bpíosaí
Dative leis an bpíosa

don phíosa

 leis na píosaí

Derived terms
  • píosa ceoil (“piece of music”)
  • píosa croise, píosa crosach (“coin engraved with cross, florin”)
  • píosa den lá (“part of the day”)
  • píosa den tír a shiúl (“to travel a bit of the country”)
  • píosa de scéal (“bit, portion, of a story”)
  • píosa de théad (“length of rope”)
  • píosa dheich bpingine (“tenpenny piece”)
  • píosa feola (“portion of meat”)
  • píosa lóin (“lunch-packet”)
  • píosa óir (“gold piece”)
  • píosa ordanáis (“cannon”)
  • píosa páipéir (“piece of paper”)
  • píosa scríbhneoireachta (“piece of writing”)
  • píosa talaimh (“piece, patch, of ground”)
  • tríd an bpíosa (“on the whole”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
píosa phíosa bpíosa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
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