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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.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

Clipping of picture

Noun

pic (plural pics or pix)

1. (informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.
2. (informal) A movie.

Etymology 2

Noun

pic (plural pics)

1. A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

Anagrams

• CIP, CPI, ICP, IPC, P.C.I., PCI, cpi

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizzo.

Noun

pic m (indefinite plural pica, definite singular pici, definite plural picat)

1. (nonstandard) tip, top, end

Derived terms

References

Catalan

Etymology

From picar.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?pik/
• Rhymes: -ik

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. pickaxe
2. peak (of a mountain)
3. peak (moment of maximum intensity)
4. knock, strike, blow
5. prick, sting
6. (typography) dot, bullet
7. (Mallorca) time (occasion)

Synonyms

• (peak): cim, pica
• (strike): cop
• (occasion): vegada
• (dot, prick): punt

Further reading

• “pic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pik/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin p?cus.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. woodpecker
2. pick (tool)

Derived terms

• pic à glace
• pic vert, pivert

See also

• piquer

Etymology 2

Probably from Spanish pico.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. peak, summit

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology

Middle Irish pic, picc, from Latin pix.

Noun

pic f (genitive singular pice)

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "pic" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Middle English

Verb

pic

1. Alternative form of piken

Old English

Etymology

From Latin pix.

Noun

pi? n

1. pitch

Declension

Derived terms

• pi?en
• pi?ian

Descendants

• Middle English: picche, piche, pich
  • English: pitch
    • ? Galician: piche
    • ? Portuguese: piche
  • Scots: pick

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “pi?”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Alternative forms

• pik

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *piccus (“sharp point”)

Noun

pic m (oblique plural pis, nominative singular pis, nominative plural pic)

1. a sharp point or spike.

Descendants

• Middle French: pic
  • French: pic

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pe??.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pit?s/

Noun

pic f

1. furnace, oven

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?it?s/

Noun

pic m inan

1. (colloquial) fib, hoax, lie

   Synonyms: blaga, oszustwo

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) picowa?
• (nouns) picownik

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Probably onomatopoetic.

Noun

pic n (plural picuri)

1. a drop (of water)

Derived terms

• pica
• picur
• picura
• pic?tur?

Adverb

pic

1. little (not much)

Synonyms

• oleac? (colloquial)
• ni?el (colloquial)
• ?âr? (colloquial)

Usage notes

• When used as an adverb (in the sense of "little"/"small amount"), pic is always preceded by un, similar to Italian/Spanish un poco, or French un peu.

See also

• pu?in

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• pìc

Etymology

Borrowed from English pike

Noun

pic f (plural picean)

1. pike, spear
2. pickaxe

Derived terms

• pic-catha

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “pic”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page pic

Slovene

Noun

píc

1. genitive plural of pica