pic

See also: PIC, pić, píč, piç, and pìc

Translingual

Symbol

pic

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Pinji.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pinji terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophone: pick

Etymology 1

Clipping of picture.

Noun

pic (plural pics or pix)

1. (informal) A picture, especially a photographic image.
   • 2025, Fraxiom, “everybody's eyes”, performed by Food House:

     I could give my all out on that stage 'til I'm numb / We could take a serious pic and one that's dumb

2. (informal) A movie.
   • 1999, The Variety Insider, page 219:

     Decidedly for adult auds, the pic has definite specialized appeal outside France and should broaden the director's commercial rep and prestige.

Derived terms

• biopic
• dickpic
• facepic
• kidpic
• piccy
• picrel
• pics or it didn't happen
• picspam
• pix0r
• print pic
• pump pic

Etymology 2

Noun

pic (plural pics)

1. A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

Anagrams

• CIP, CPI, ICP, IPC, P.C.I., PCI, cpi

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pizzo.

Noun

pic m (plural pica, definite pici, definite plural picat)

1. (nonstandard) tip, top, end

Derived terms

• picak
• picarak
• picas
• picë
• picël
• picërr
• picigonë
• picigjatë
• picimajë
• picinakë
• picingul
• picir
• picorr

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from picar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpik]
• Rhymes: -ik

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. pickaxe
2. peak (of a mountain)
3. peak (moment of maximum intensity)
4. knock, strike, blow
5. prick, sting
6. (typography) dot, bullet
7. (Mallorca) time (occasion)

Synonyms

• (peak): cim, pica
• (strike): cop
• (occasion): vegada
• (dot, prick): punt

Further reading

• “pic”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pik/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *piccus, from Latin pīcus.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. woodpecker
2. pick (tool)

Derived terms

• pic à glace
• pic tridactyle
• pic vert
• pioche
• pivert

See also

• piquer

Etymology 2

Probably from Spanish pico.

Noun

pic m (plural pics)

1. peak, summit

Derived terms

• à pic
• pic de Casamanya
• pic de Coma Pedrosa
• pic de Teide
• pic d'Orizaba
• pic du Balaïtous
• pic du Montcalm
• pic du Serrère
• pic Tupungato
• pics San Francisco

Further reading

• “pic”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “pic”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “pic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Irish

Etymology

Middle Irish pic, picc, from Latin pix.

Noun

pic f (genitive singular pice)

1. pitch, tar

Declension

Declension of pic (second declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative pic vocative a phic genitive pice dative pic forms with the definite article singular nominative an phic genitive na pice dative leis an bpic don phic

Mutation

Mutated forms of pic

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pic	phic	bpic

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Kashubian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pih₃-e-ti

Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīteider.

Proto-Slavic *piti

Kashubian pic

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *piti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit͡s/
• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: pic

Verb

pic impf

1. (transitive) to drink

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “pić”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “pic”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Middle English

Verb

pic

1. alternative form of piken

Old English

Alternative forms

• pic

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *pik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pit͡ʃ/, /pik/
• Rhymes: -it͡ʃ
• Rhymes: -ik

Noun

piċ or pic n

1. pitch

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	piċ	—
accusative	piċ	—
genitive	piċes	—
dative	piċe	—

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	pic	—
accusative	pic	—
genitive	pices	—
dative	pice	—

Derived terms

• piċen
• piċian

Descendants

• Middle English: pik, pikk, pike, pikke, pich, piche, picche
  • English: pitch
    • → Galician: piche
    • → Portuguese: piche
  • Scots: pick
  • → Middle Irish: pic, picc
    • Irish: pic

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “piċ”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Alternative forms

• pik

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *piccus (“sharp point”).

Noun

pic oblique singular, m (oblique plural pis, nominative singular pis, nominative plural pic)

1. a sharp point or spike.

Descendants

• Middle French: pic
  • French: pic ⇒ pivert

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *peťь, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pektís, from Proto-Indo-European *pékʷ-tis, from *pekʷ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pit͡s/

Noun

pic f

1. furnace, oven

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpit͡s/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -it͡s
• Syllabification: pic

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Polish picowaćdeverb.

Polish pic

Deverbal from picować.

Noun

pic m inan

1. (colloquial) fib, hoax, lie

   Synonyms: blaga, oszustwo

Declension

Declension of pic

	singular	plural
nominative	pic	pice
genitive	picu	piców
dative	picowi	picom
accusative	pic	pice
instrumental	picem	picami
locative	picu	picach
vocative	picu	pice

Derived terms

adverb

• dla picu

nouns

• picownik

verb

• picować

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

pic f

1. genitive plural of pica

Further reading

• “pic”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “pic”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Romanian

Alternative forms

• пик (pic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Uncertain, maybe from the root *peh₂w- (“few, small”).

Most likely from Vulgar Latin picca, from earlier *piccus, borrowed from Proto-Celtic *bikkos (“small, little”). Eventually influenced by dissimilation by paucus (“few, little”). Compare Albanian pikë (“a drop; a bit”), Sicilian picca (“a bit, a little”), Italian piccolo (“small”), Spanish pequeño (“small”). Compare also French petit (“small”), English pinch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Hyphenation: pic

Noun

pic n (plural picuri)

1. a drop (of water)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pic	picul	picuri	picurile
genitive-dative	pic	picului	picuri	picurilor
vocative	picule		picurilor

Derived terms

• pica
• picur
• picura
• picătură

Adverb

pic

1. little (not much)

   Eu știu spaniolă doar un pic.

   I know Spanish just a little.

Usage notes

• When used as an adverb (in the sense of "little, small amount"), pic is always preceded by un, similar to Italian and Spanish un poco or French un peu.

Synonyms

• oleacă (colloquial)
• nițel (colloquial)
• țâră (colloquial)

See also

• puțin

Further reading

• “pic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• pìc

Etymology

Borrowed from English pike.

Noun

pic f (plural picean)

1. pike, spear
2. pickaxe

Derived terms

• pic-catha

Further reading

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “pic”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[4], Stirling, →ISBN, page pic

Slovene

Noun

píc

1. genitive plural of pica

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪk/

Etymology 1

Deverbal from picio (“to cast”).

Noun

pic f (plural picau or pics, diminutive picen)

1. griddlecake
2. Welsh cake

Usage notes

There are many terms for Welsh cake in Welsh and the particular word an individual uses will vary from area to area.

Derived terms

• pic ar y maen (“Welsh cake”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pick.

Noun

pic m (plural piciau or picys)

1. pick, pickaxe

Synonyms

• picas

Mutation

Mutated forms of pic

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pic	bic	mhic	phic

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “pic”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “pic”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies