Masculine
pit
Meaning
- (masculine) breast
- (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
Frequency
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.
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