peça

See also: peca, PECA, pecá, pèca, pecà, and pecã

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis. Compare French pièce, Italian pezza, Spanish pieza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpe.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.sa]

Noun

peça f (plural peces)

1. piece (a part of something)
2. room (division of a building)
3. garment, article of clothing
4. (heraldry) ordinary

Further reading

• “peça” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “peça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “peça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “peça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Noun

peça f (plural peças, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of peza

Verb

peça

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of pedir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “peça” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛsɐ
• Hyphenation: pe‧ça

Etymology 1

From Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis. Compare French pièce, Italian pezza, Spanish pieza, Old Irish cuit.

Noun

peça f (plural peças)

1. piece (part of a larger whole)
2. piece (single item belonging to a class of similar items)

   peça de fruta ― piece of fruit

   peça de roupa ― piece of clothes, garment

3. (chess) piece
4. (theater) play
5. (Brazil, slang) gun
6. (Brazil, colloquial, euphemistic) cock, dick (penis)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

peça

1. inflection of pedir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “peça”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “peça” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “peça”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “peça”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “peça”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “peça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025