piè

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pie"

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpjɛ/*
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: piè

Noun

piè m (invariable)

  1. (poetic) Clipping of piede (“foot”).
    • mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 13–15; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Ma poi ch’i’ fui al piè d’un colle giunto,
      là dove terminava quella valle
      che m’avea di paura il cor compunto, […]
      But after I had reached a mountain's foot,
      ⁠At that point where the valley terminated,
      ⁠Which had with consternation pierced my heart,
  2. footer (in a printed document)
    Antonym: intestazione
    piè di pagina ― page footer

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Romanization

piè (pie4, Zhuyin ㄆㄧㄝˋ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嫳
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