🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Pedaços

Pronunciation / Transliteration: peˈdasus

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pieces/ˈpiːsɪz/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ela coletou todos os pedaços do vaso quebrado."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A portion or fragment of something larger.

    "She collected all the pieces of the broken vase."
  2. 2

    An individual item or unit within a set.

    "He has a collection of rare chess pieces."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word 'pieces' originates from the Old French term 'piece', which itself comes from the Latin 'pax', meaning 'a part' or 'a share'. Over time, the meaning evolved to refer to separate parts of a whole, especially in contexts involving fragmentation or division.

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