pic

English Online Dictionary. What means pic‎? What does pic mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophone: pick

Etymology 1

Clipping of picture

Noun

pic (plural pics or pix)

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

Derived terms

• dickpic
• print pic
• pump pic
• pics or it didn't happen

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 (plural pica, definite pici, definite plural picat)

1. (nonstandard) tip, top, end

Derived terms

References

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from picar.

Pronunciation

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

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin pīcus.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. woodpecker
2. pick (tool)

Derived terms

See also

• piquer

Etymology 2

Probably from Spanish pico.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. peak, summit

Derived terms

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.

Noun

pic f (genitive singular pice)

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

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

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piti.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

pic impf

1. (transitive) to drink

Further reading

• 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

Middle English

Verb

pic

1. Alternative form of piken

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *pik.

Noun

piċ n

1. pitch

Declension

Alternative forms

• pic

Derived terms

• piċen
• piċian

Descendants

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

References

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• pik

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. a sharp point or spike.

Descendants

• Middle French: pic
  • French: pic ⇒ pivert

Polabian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pit͡s/

Noun

pic f

1. furnace, oven

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Deverbal from picować.

Noun

pic m inan

1. (colloquial) fib, hoax, lie

   Synonyms: blaga, oszustwo

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pic f

1. genitive plural of pica

Further reading

• pic in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pic in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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.

Noun

pic n (plural picuri)

1. a drop (of water)

Declension

Derived terms

• pica
• picur
• picura
• picătură

Adverb

pic

1. little (not much)

Usage notes

• 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.

Synonyms

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

See also

• puțin

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^[3], Stirling, →ISBN, page pic

Slovene

Noun

píc

1. genitive plural of pica