pici

See also: Pici, piči, pičí, píci, pící, píči, and pīci

English

Etymology

Italian

Noun

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pici

Wikipedia

pici (usually uncountable, plural pici)

1. A kind of hand-rolled pasta, like thick spaghetti, from Sienna.

Translations

type of pasta

Italian: pici m pl Japanese: ピチ (pichi)

Hungarian

Etymology

First attested in 1796. Onomatopoeic from the same word family as pindurka, pirinyó.^[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpit͡si]
• Hyphenation: pi‧ci
• Rhymes: -t͡si

Adjective

pici (comparative picibb, superlative legpicibb)

1. tiny, minute, diminutive

   Synonyms: kicsi, apró

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pici	picik
accusative	picit	piciket
dative	picinek	piciknek
instrumental	picivel	picikkel
causal-final	piciért	picikért
translative	picivé	picikké
terminative	piciig	picikig
essive-formal	piciként	picikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	piciben	picikben
superessive	picin	piciken
adessive	picinél	piciknél
illative	picibe	picikbe
sublative	picire	picikre
allative	picihez	picikhez
elative	piciből	picikből
delative	piciről	picikről
ablative	picitől	piciktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	picié	piciké
non-attributive possessive - plural	piciéi	picikéi

Noun

pici (plural picik)

1. little one (a child, a little boy or girl)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pici	picik
accusative	picit	piciket
dative	picinek	piciknek
instrumental	picivel	picikkel
causal-final	piciért	picikért
translative	picivé	picikké
terminative	piciig	picikig
essive-formal	piciként	picikként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	piciben	picikben
superessive	picin	piciken
adessive	picinél	piciknél
illative	picibe	picikbe
sublative	picire	picikre
allative	picihez	picikhez
elative	piciből	picikből
delative	piciről	picikről
ablative	picitől	piciktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	picié	piciké
non-attributive possessive - plural	piciéi	picikéi

Possessive forms of pici
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	picim	picijeim (or piciim)
2nd person sing.	picid	picijeid (or piciid)
3rd person sing.	picije	picijei (or picii)
1st person plural	picink	picijeink (or piciink)
2nd person plural	picitek	picijeitek (or piciitek)
3rd person plural	picijük	picijeik (or piciik)

References

1. pici in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)
2. pici in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
3. pici in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

• pici in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

pici

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡ʃi/
• Rhymes: -itʃi
• Hyphenation: pì‧ci

Noun

pici m pl (plural only)

1. pici

Latin

Noun

picī

1. dative singular of pix

Noun

pīcī

1. inflection of pīcus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular

Mapudungun

Adjective

pici (Raguileo spelling)

1. small

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.t͡ɕi/
• Rhymes: -it͡ɕi
• Syllabification: pi‧ci

Participle

pici

1. virile nominative/vocative plural of pity

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیچ (piç), from a dialectal form of Armenian բիճ (bič), from Middle Armenian բիճ (bič).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pit͡ʃʲ]

Verb

pici

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of pica

Noun

pici m (plural pici)

1. boy

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pici	piciul	(niște) pici	picii
genitive/dative	(unui) pici	piciului	(unor) pici	picilor
vocative	piciule		picilor

Declension of pici

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pici

1. dative/locative singular of pica

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin picem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ʃi/

Noun

pici f (plural pici)

1. pitch (resinous material)

References

Traina, Antonino (1868) “pici”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3046