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# piece

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun, verb
**IPA (US):** /piːs/
**Frequency rank:** 686

## Meanings
1. A part of something larger, or an amount broken or cut off.
2. A part cut from a larger amount of food.
3. A single work of art, music, or writing.
4. A single item of a particular type.
5. To put separate parts together to make a whole.

## Examples
- Can I have a piece of your chocolate?
- She gave each child a piece of pie.
- The newspaper published an interesting piece about climate change.
- We bought a new piece of furniture for the living room.
- The detective slowly pieced together what had happened that night.

## Synonyms
- bit
- chip
- chunk
- clip
- crumb
- crumbling
- cutting
- flake
- fleak
- fragment
- hunk
- lump

## Related Forms
- asunder
- bit
- broken
- chunk
- modicum
- peace

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: pece
- Root: piece
- Root: petia
- Root: *pettyā
- Root: *kʷezdis

## Etymology
From Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin petia, pettia, possibly from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”). Compare Welsh peth, Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo.

## AI Etymology
Piece comes from Middle English pece, peece, peice, from Old French piece, from Late Latin petia, pettia, possibly from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion, quota”). Compare Welsh peth, Breton pez (“thing”), Irish cuid. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian pezza, Italian pezzo. In present-day English it covers a part of something larger, or an amount broken or cut off, a part cut from a larger amount of food, and a single work of art, music, or writing. The wider family includes related forms such as asunder, bit, broken, chunk.

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