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1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Pinji.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pinji terms

• IPA^(key): /pɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophone: pick

Clipping of picture.

pic (plural pics or pix)

1. (informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.
   • 2025, Fraxiom, “everybody's eyes”, performed by Food House:

     I could give my all out on that stage 'til I'm numb / We could take a serious pic and one that's dumb

2. (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.

pic (plural pics)

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

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

Borrowed from Italian pizzo.^[1]

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

1. (nonstandard) tip, top, end

Deverbal from picar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpik]
• Rhymes: -ik

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)

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

• “pic”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /pik/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin pīcus.

pic m (plural pics)

1. woodpecker
2. pick (tool)

• piquer

Probably from Spanish pico.

pic m (plural pics)

1. peak, summit

• “pic”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “pic”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “pic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Middle Irish pic, picc, from Latin pix.

pic f (genitive singular pice)

1. pitch, tar

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit͡s/
• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: pic

pic impf

1. (transitive) to drink

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “pić”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “pic”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

pic

1. alternative form of piken

• pic

From Proto-West Germanic *pik.

• IPA^(key): /pit͡ʃ/, /pik/
• Rhymes: -it͡ʃ
• Rhymes: -ik

piċ or pic n

1. pitch

Strong a-stem:

Strong a-stem:

• piċen
• piċian

• Middle English: pik, pikk, pike, pikke, pich, piche, picche
  • English: pitch
    • → Galician: piche
    • → Portuguese: piche
  • Scots: pick
  • → Middle Irish: pic, picc
    • Irish: pic

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “piċ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• pik

From Vulgar Latin *piccus (“sharp point”).

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

1. a sharp point or spike.

• Middle French: pic
  • French: pic ⇒ pivert

From Proto-Slavic *peťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pektís, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tis, from *pekʷ-.

• IPA^(key): /pit͡s/

pic f

1. furnace, oven

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit͡s/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: pic

Deverbal from picować.

pic m inan

1. (colloquial) fib, hoax, lie

   Synonyms: blaga, oszustwo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pic f

1. genitive plural of pica

• “pic”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “pic”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

• пик (pic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

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.

• IPA^(key): /pik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Hyphenation: pic

pic n (plural picuri)

1. a drop (of water)

• pica
• picur
• picura
• picătură

pic

1. little (not much)

   Eu știu spaniolă doar un pic.

   I know Spanish just a little.

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

• oleacă (colloquial)
• nițel (colloquial)
• țâră (colloquial)

• puțin

• “pic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• pìc

Borrowed from English pike.

pic f (plural picean)

1. pike, spear
2. pickaxe

• pic-catha

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “pic”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[4], Stirling, →ISBN, page pic

píc

1. genitive plural of pica

• IPA^(key): /pɪk/

Deverbal from picio (“to cast”).

pic f (plural picau or pics, diminutive picen)

1. griddlecake
2. Welsh cake

There are many terms for Welsh cake in Welsh and the particular word an individual uses will vary from area to area.

• pic ar y maen (“Welsh cake”)

Borrowed from English pick.

pic m (plural piciau or picys)

1. pick, pickaxe

• picas

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “pic”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “pic”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies