different between pia vs pix

English

Etymology 1

Noun

pia

1. (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord

Etymology 2

Noun

pia (uncountable)

1. A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot.

Anagrams

• AIP, API, Api, IAP, IPA

Allentiac

Noun

pia (plural pia-guiam)

1. father

References

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913) (in notes)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

Comanche

Noun

pia

1. mother

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pia/
• Hyphenation: pi?a
• Rhymes: -ia

Adjective

pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)

1. pious

   Antonym: malpia

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian rumbia.

Noun

pia

1. Polynesian arrowroot
2. starch

Etymology 2

From English beer.

Noun

pia

1. beer

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from piál.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pij?]
• Hyphenation: pia
• Rhymes: -j?

Noun

pia (plural piák)

1. (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• pia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Adjective

pia f sg

1. feminine singular of pio

Anagrams

• api, Api, IPA

Krio

Etymology

From English [alligator] pear.

Noun

pia

1. avocado

Latin

Adjective

pia

1. nominative feminine singular of pius
2. nominative neuter plural of pius
3. accusative neuter plural of pius
4. vocative feminine singular of pius
5. nominative neuter plural of pius

Adjective

pi?

1. ablative feminine singular of pius

References

• pia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lolopo

Etymology

From Tai. Compare Thai ??? (pâa) and Lü ??? (?haa²).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p??a³³]

Noun

pia 

1. (Yao'an) clothes

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [p?i?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /p?ijæ?/
• Bender phonemes: {piyah}

Etymology 1

From Proto-Micronesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *pi?a, *bi?a, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pi?ah, *bi?ah, from Proto-Austronesian *pi?aS, *bi?aS. Cognate with Paiwan bias, Bikol Central piga, Karo Batak pira.

Alternative forms

• bwiaea
• piaea

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

1. fish roe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English beer.

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

1. beer

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pie.

Noun

pia

1. foot
2. leg

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *piya, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pura. Compare Classical Nahuatl piya (“to keep, to protect”)

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /?pija/
• (Tacuba) IPA^(key): /?pja/

Verb

-pia

1. (transitive) to have, to possess, to keep

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese pia, from Latin p?la (“mortar”).

Noun

pia f (plural pias)

1. sink
2. basin

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Pia

Etymology 2

Adjective

pia f sg

1. feminine singular of pio

Etymology 3

Verb

pia

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of piar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of piar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pja/, [?pja]

Verb

pia

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of piar.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adverb

pia

1. also

   Synonym: vilevile

2. all (used with -ote for emphasis)

Westrobothnian

Alternative forms

• pya
• päia

Etymology

From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka, Swedish piga and Danish pige.

Noun

pia f (definite form only)

1. little girl
2. pet name used for mare (compare syt)

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /p?ks/
• Homophones: picks, pics, pyx
• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

First attested 1932, abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety magazine, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage [1].

Noun

pix pl (plural only)

1. (informal) Plural form of pic in the sense of "picture".
   • 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in The Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., ISSN 0006-2510, Volume 58, Number 37 (1946 September 14), page 82:

     Annual photo contest has brought in some pix by amateurs which are definitely in the professional category.

   • 1978, response to a letter to the editor, in American Motorcyclist, American Motorcyclist Association, ISSN 0277-9358, Volume 32, Number 2 (1978 February), page 4:

     Photo selection can be tricky with space limitations, Arthur, and we blew that one. Hope the Scott pix in our January issue made you feel better about this.

   • 2010, Lynn Powell, Framing Innocence: A Mother’s Photographs, a Prosecutor’s Zeal, and a Small Town’s Response, The New Press, ?ISBN, pages 15–16:

     He nervously wrote down Amy’s instructions for what to say and how to behave if the police came back with a search warrant:

     • […]
     • take pix of damage afterward

2. Specifically, motion pictures; movies.

Etymology 2

A variant of pyx.

Noun

pix (plural pixes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pyx [Late Middle English–19th c.]

Verb

pix (third-person singular simple present pixes, present participle pixing, simple past and past participle pixed)

1. Obsolete spelling of pyx

Ixil

Verb

pix

1. to tie

References

• Dwight David Jewett and Marcos Willis, A' u u' uva'a uva' molel ca ink'a kuyolb'al atz tuch' yolb'al castiiya (Diccionario Ixil de Chajul - Español, Español - Ixil de Chajul) (1996)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pik- (“resin”), and/or from the root *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin p?nus (“pine”). More at pine.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /piks/, [p?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /piks/, [piks]

Noun

pix f (genitive picis); third declension

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• piceus
• picula (Late Latin)
  • Dalmatian: pecla
  • Italian: pegola
  • Romanian: p?cur?
  • ?? Slavic: *p?k?l?, *p?c?l?, *p?k?lo (unless inherited from Balto-Slavic) (see there for further descendants)

Descendants

References

• pix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pick or Bic (a brand of ballpoint pen).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piks/

Noun

pix n (plural pixuri)

1. ballpoint pen

Declension

References

• pix in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.