# peza
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpeza/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pe‧za

### Adjective

peza (accusative singular pezan, plural pezaj, accusative plural pezajn)
* heavy, onerous, weighty

#### Antonyms

* malpeza

#### Derived terms

* pezega

#### Related terms

* pezo

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* peça (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

Attested in local medieval documents as peza (969); from Old Galician-Portuguese peça, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis. Compare French pièce, Portuguese peça, Spanish pieza, Italian and Sicilian pezza, Welsh peth, Irish cuid.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛθa/ [ˈpɛ.θɐ]
* IPA: (standard) /ˈpɛθa/ [ˈpɛ.θɐ]
* IPA: (seseo) /ˈpɛsa/ [ˈpɛ.sɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛθa
* Rhymes: -ɛθa
* Rhymes: -ɛsa
* Hyphenation: pe‧za

### Noun

peza f (plural pezas)
* piece, fragment, part, component of a larger or composite object
* a piece of land
** 1278, Emilio Duro Peña, editor, El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 290:una leyra con una peça de montea farmland patch with a piece of uncultivated land
* subset; group
** 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 272:que desta dita çibdade avían partido Pero Dias de Cadorna e Martín Sánches, abade da Triindade da dita çibdade, con çerta gente de cavalo e de pe, pera Milmanda, sobre rasón de çerto insulto que ena dita villa de Millmanda avían feyto Martín de Castro, con peça de gente do señorío de Purtogalthat from this city [Ourense] had departed Pedro Diaz de Cadorna and Martín Sánchez, abbot of the Trinity of said city, with some mounted and unmounted people, to Milmanda, because of a certain insult that in said town of Milmanda had done Martín de Castro with a group of people of the realm of Portugal
* game piece
* a piece leather used in shoemaking
* latrine
* net
* each one of the fixed periods of time allotted for the use of a mill

#### Derived terms

* despezar
* empezar
* empezo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “peça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “peça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “peza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “peza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “peza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “pieza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos.

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

### Noun

peza
* nest

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

### Noun

peza
* nest
* lair, den

#### Derived terms

* grähkänpeza
* hijamanpeza
* ilopeza
* mezipeza
* mezjaižpeza
* raudpeza
* unipeza
* pezakund

### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “берлога, гнездо, логово”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika