pit

Meaning

1. (masculine) breast
2. (masculine) force to support the castell, provided by the castellers in the pinya by pressing their chest onto the back of the casteller in front of them

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈpit]

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan pit (also pits), from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“breast”). Compare Occitan pièch, French pis, Spanish pecho.