Masculine

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

Synonyms

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈpit]
Etymology

In summary

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.

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