different between flan vs pie

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed around 1846 from French flan (“cheesecake, custard tart, flan”), or in some uses (in reference to Spanish/Latin American flans) later from Spanish flan (itself from the French), both from Old French flaon (whence also Middle English flaon, flaun (“pie; cake”)), from Late Latin fladonem, accusative of flad? (“flat cake”), from Frankish *flaþ? (“flat cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?t- (“broad, flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to spread out, be broad, be flat”); compare German Fladen. Akin to Old High German flado (“flat cake, offering cake”). More at flathe.

Although the -n is generally believed to derive from the Late Latin accusative form (fladonem) of flad? (“flat cake”), it might alternatively derive from an inflected form of the Frankish word (such as the Frankish accusative *flaþan, or the like). For a similar case, see garden.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /flæn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fl?n/
• Rhymes: -æn, -??n

Noun

flan (plural flans)

1. (chiefly Britain, Australia) Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case. (Compare quiche.)
   • 2004, Shawn Blore, Alexandra de Vries, Frommer's Brazil ?ISBN, page 175:

     The menu includes a number of excellent fish dishes such as the […] broccoli flan.

2. (chiefly US, Belize) A dessert of congealed custard, often topped with caramel, especially popular in Spanish-speaking countries.

   Synonym: crème caramel

3. (numismatics) A coin die. (Compare planchet.)

Usage notes

• In the UK and Australia, flan usually refers to a baked tart (sense 1), and would only refer to a custard dessert (sense 2) rarely and in the context of the cuisine of Latin American or Mediterranean countries which use the word in that way. In the US, flan usually refers to the (Latin American-derived) custard dessert (sense 2), though uses of sense 1 can also be found.

Related terms

• flathe
• flathon
• flawn

Translations

See also

• custard

Etymology 2

English, from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flæn/
• Rhymes: -æn

Noun

flan (plural flans)

1. (informal, fandom slang) A fan of the U.S. TV series Firefly.

   Synonym: Browncoat

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flan.

References

• Nathan Fillion interview at an In Good Company premiere, 28 December 2004 (IESB.net video) (Wikiquote transcription)

French

Etymology

From Old French flaon, from Late Latin flad? (“flat cake”), from Frankish *flaþ? (“flat cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?t- (“broad, flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to spread out, be broad, be flat”). Akin to Old High German flado (“flat cake, offering cake”) (German Fladen), Dutch vla (“baked custard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl??/

Noun

flan m (plural flans)

1. baked custard tart
2. coin die

Further reading

• “flan” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

flan

1. Alternative form of flon

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flainaz (“hook, spear with a tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleyn- (“metal arrow, hook, spear-head”). Akin to Old Norse fleinn (“hook, barbed weapon, javelin, arrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl??n/

Noun

fl?n m or f

1. arrow

Declension

(when masculine)

(when feminine)

Descendants

• Middle English: flon, ffloon, flone, flan
  • English: flone
  • Scots: flane, flain

Romanian

Etymology

From French flan.

Noun

flan n (plural flanuri)

1. baked custard tart

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From French flan, from Old French flaon, from Late Latin flad? (“flat cake”), from Frankish *flaþ? (“flat cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?t- (“broad, flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to spread out, be broad, be flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flan/, [?flãn]

Noun

flan m (plural flanes)

1. flan, sweet pudding

Derived terms

• flancito (diminutive)

English

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: p?, IPA^(key): /pa?/
• Homophones: pi, ?
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English pye, pie, probably from Latin p?ca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests).

Noun

pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)

1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.

2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

3. (Northeastern US) A pizza.
4. (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
5. (letterpress typography) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
6. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
7. A pie chart.
8. (slang) The vulva.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

See also

• pastie
• pasty

Verb

pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)

1. (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

2. (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
3. (transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin p?ca, feminine of p?cus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”). Cognate with speight.

Noun

pie (plural pies)

2. (obsolete) Magpie.

Derived terms

• piebald

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Hindi ??? (p??, “quarter”), from Sanskrit ?????? (p?dik?).

Noun

pie (plural pie or pies)

1. (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to ¹?₁₉₂ of a rupee or ¹?₁₂ of an anna.

Translations

Anagrams

• EIP, EPI, Epi, IEP, P.E.I., PEI, Pei, epi, epi-, ipe, ipé

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin pes, pedem.

Noun

pie m (plural pies)

1. foot

Related terms

• peón

Esperanto

Adverb

pie

1. piously

French

Etymology

From Old French pie, from Latin pica, feminine of picus (“woodpecker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi/

Noun

pie f (plural pies)

1. magpie

Derived terms

• bavard comme une pie
• fromage à la pie

Further reading

• “pie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• épi, I.-P.-E., IPE, ipé

Italian

Adjective

pie f pl

1. feminine plural of pio

Anagrams

• pei

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

pi? (comparative pius, superlative pissim?)

1. piously, devoutly
2. dutifully, loyally

Etymology 2

Adjective

pie

1. vocative masculine singular of pius

References

• pie in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pie in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Latvian

Preposition

pie (with genitive)

1. at

2. on

3. to

Mandarin

Romanization

pie

1. Nonstandard spelling of pi?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pi?.
3. Nonstandard spelling of piè.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin p?ca.

Noun

pie

1. Alternative form of pye (“pie”)

Etymology 2

From Old French pie.

Noun

pie

1. Alternative form of pye (“magpie”)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French pie, from Latin pica, feminine of picus (“woodpecker”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pie f (plural pies)

1. (Jersey) female magpie

Synonyms

• mèrgot

Coordinate terms

• (sex): piêté

Old French

Etymology

From Latin p?ca.

Noun

pie f (oblique plural pies, nominative singular pie, nominative plural pies)

1. magpie

Descendants

• ? English: pie
• French: pie
• Norman: pie (Jersey)

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pedem, singular accusative of p?s, from Proto-Indo-European *p?ds..

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pje]

Noun

pie m (plural pies)

1. (anatomy) foot
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 28r.

2. foot; the base of a mountain
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r.

Descendants

• Spanish: pie

Portuguese

Verb

pie

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of piar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of piar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of piar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of piar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pje/, [?pje]
• Hyphenation: pie

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish pie, from Latin pedem, accusative singular of p?s, from Proto-Indo-European *p?ds.

Noun

pie m (plural pies)

1. foot (of a person)

   Synonym: (of an animal) pata

2. (poetry) foot

Alternative forms

• pié (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

pie

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of piar.

Alternative forms

• pié

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pai/, [?pai?]

Noun

pie m (plural pies)

1. (Central America, South America) pie

Usage notes

Spanish-speaking Central and South Americans use the English loanword pie to refer to certain kinds of pies but not all kinds of pies. Some types of pies are referred to as tarta. It very much depends on the region for which term to use. Tarta is much more frequent, however.

Alternative forms

• pay (Mexico)

Derived terms

• pie de parchita (“passionfruit cheesecake”) (especially in Venezuela)
• pie de limón (“lemon pie”) (Central and South America)

Further reading

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