different between pies vs bread

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

pies

1. plural of pie

Verb

pies

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pie
2. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pi

Anagrams

• EPIs, Epis, Peis, Seip, Sipe, epis, ipes, pisé, sipe, spie

Cornish

Etymology

Appears to ultimately derive from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“magpie”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

pies f (singulative piesen)

1. magpies

Dutch

Etymology

Variant of pis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pis/
• Hyphenation: pies
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

pies m (uncountable)

1. (slang or childish) Alternative form of pis; pee, piss.

Derived terms

• piesen

Anagrams

• peis

French

Noun

pies f

1. plural of pie

Anagrams

• ipés, Pise, pisé

Latin

Verb

pi?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of pi?

References

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

Old Spanish

Noun

pies m pl

1. plural of pie

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *p?s?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s/

Noun

pies m anim (diminutive piesek, augmentative psisko)

1. A dog (Canis lupus familiaris).
2. A male dog.
3. (hunting) A male fox or badger.

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) psiak, psiara, psiarnia, psiarz, psica, psi?, psina, psowate

  (diminutives) pieseczek, piesek, piesunio, psiaczek, psi?tko, psinka

• (adjectives) pieski, psi, psowaty
• (adverbs) psio, piesko
• (verbs) psioczy?

Noun

pies m anim or m pers

1. (slang, derogatory) cop, policeman

   Synonyms: glina, gliniarz

Declension

Further reading

• pies in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• pies in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

pies

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of piar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of piar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pjes/, [?pjes]

Noun

pies m pl

1. plural of pie

English

Wikibooks

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/, /b?e?d/
• (UK, US) enPR: br?d, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• Rhymes: -?d
• Homophone: bred

Etymology 1

From Middle English bred, breed, from Old English br?ad (“fragment, bit, morsel, crumb", also "bread”), from Proto-Germanic *braud? (“cooked food, leavened bread”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erw-, *b?rew- (“to boil, seethe”) (see brew). Alternatively, from Proto-Germanic *braudaz, *brauþaz (“broken piece, fragment”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?era- (“to split, beat, hew, struggle”) (see brittle). Perhaps a conflation of the two.

Cognate with Scots breid (“bread”), Saterland Frisian Brad (“bread”), West Frisian brea (“bread”), Dutch brood (“bread”), German Brot (“bread”), Danish and Norwegian brød (“bread”), Swedish bröd (“bread”), Icelandic brauð (“bread”), Albanian brydh (“I make crumbly, friable, soft”), Latin frustum (“crumb”).

Eclipsed non-native Middle English payn (“bread”), borrowed from Old French pain (“bread”).

Noun

bread (countable and uncountable, plural breads)

1. (uncountable) A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
2. (countable) Any variety of bread.
3. (slang, US) Money.
4. Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Usage notes

• loaf, slice, piece, hunk are some of the words used to count bread.

Synonyms

• (slang: money): dough, folding stuff, lolly, paper, spondulicks, wonga

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: brede
• ? Fiji Hindi: bareed

Translations

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) to coat with breadcrumbs

Derived terms

• breaded (adjective)
• breading (noun)

Translations

See also

• loaf

Etymology 2

From Middle English brede, from Old English br?du (“breadth, width, extent”), from Proto-Germanic *braid?? (“breadth”). Cognate with Scots brede, breid (“breadth”), Dutch breedte (“breadth”), German Breite (“breadth”), Swedish bredd (“breadth”), Icelandic breidd (“breadth”).

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) Breadth.

Derived terms

• waybread

Etymology 3

From Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan (“to make broad, extend, spread, stretch out; be extended, rise, grow”), from Proto-Germanic *braidijan? (“to make broad, broaden”).

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive, dialectal) To make broad; spread.

References

Etymology 4

Variant of braid, from Middle English breden, from Old English br?dan, bre?dan (“to braid”).

Alternative forms

• breathe, brede

Verb

bread (third-person singular simple present breads, present participle breading, simple past and past participle breaded)

1. (transitive) To form in meshes; net.

Noun

bread (plural breads)

1. A piece of embroidery; a braid.

Anagrams

• Bader, Beard, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, beard, debar

Old English

Alternative forms

• br?od

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *braud?, whence also Old Frisian br?d (West Frisian brea), Old Saxon br?d (German Low German Broot, Brot), Dutch brood, Old High German br?t (German Brot), Old Norse brauð and Icelandic brauð (Swedish bröd).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bræ???d/

Noun

br?ad n (nominative plural br?adru) (rare, chiefly Anglian)

1. bit, piece, morsel, crumb
2. bread (foodstuff)

Declension

Synonyms

• (bread): hl?f

Derived terms

• b?obr?ad
• picgbr?ad

Descendants

• Middle English: bred, brede, breed, brid, bread, bræd
  • English: bread
    • Sranan Tongo: brede
    • ? Fiji Hindi: bareed
  • Scots: breid
  • Yola: breed

Spanish

Verb

bread

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of brear.