Where does “pezzo” come from?

pezzo (Italian) comes from Latin picea, from Latin pix, from Proto-Indo-European pik-, from Proto-Indo-European pi- — sap, juice.

pezzo (Italian): piece, chunk; hunk; plot

Definitions

  1. piece, chunk; hunk; plot

Ancestry of “pezzo”, step by step

pezzo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin picea

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpiceaspruce family
2Latinpixpitch, tar
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpik-to be angry; pitch; resin
4Proto-Indo-Europeanpi-sap, juice

via Latin pettia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinpettiapiece, portion
2Gaulishpettyā—
3Proto-Celtickʷezdispiece, portion

Words derived from “pezzo”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pi- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European pik- →Every word from Latin pix →
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