pie

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A baked dish made of pastry with a filling of fruit, meat, or vegetables inside.

   We had apple pie and ice cream for dessert.

2. 2
   noun

   A round chart divided into slices to show how a whole is split into parts.

   The pie clearly showed how the company spent its budget.

3. 3
   noun

   The whole amount of money or resources that is to be shared out.

   Each department wants a bigger slice of the company's pie.

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Simplified etymology

Pie, the pastry dish, is probably the same word as the former bird name pie, meaning “magpie,” from Latin pica, “magpie.” The connection may reflect either the varied ingredients of early pies, likened to objects collected by a magpie, or the bird’s variegated coloring.

From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).

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