pic
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪk/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪk
- Homophone: pick
Etymology 1
Clipping of picture
Noun
- (informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.
- (informal) A movie.
- 1999, The Variety Insider, page 219:
- Decidedly for adult auds, the pic has definite specialized appeal outside France and should broaden the director's commercial rep and prestige.
Albanian
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “picërr”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 325
Catalan
Etymology
Deverbal from picar.
Noun
pic m (plural pics)
Further reading
- “pic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pik/
audio (file)
Etymology 1
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin pīcus.
Derived terms
See also
Derived terms
- à pic
- Pic d’Orizaba
- pics San Francisco
Further reading
- “pic” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “pic” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “pic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
Etymology
Middle Irish pic, picc, from Latin pix.
Declension
Second declension
Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
pic | phic | bpic |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Kashubian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piti.
Further reading
- “pic”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
- Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “pić”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi
Middle English
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *pik.
Declension
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- piċen
- piċian
Descendants
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “piċ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *piccus (“sharp point”).
Polabian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *peťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktis, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tis, from *pekʷ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pit͡s/
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pit͡s/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -it͡s
- Syllabification: pic
Etymology 1
Deverbal from picować.
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Romanian
Etymology
Uncertain, maybe from the root *peh₂w- (“few, small”).
Most likely from Vulgar Latin picca, from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”). Eventually influenced by dissimilation by paucus (“few, little”). Compare Albanian pikë (“a drop; a bit”), Sicilian picca (“a bit, a little”), Italian piccolo (“small”), Spanish pequeño (“small”). Compare also French petit (“small”), English pinch.
Declension
Usage notes
See also
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Further reading
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “pic”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page pic