Feminine

pieve

Sentences
An user
La   pieve   conteneva   una   fonte battesimale .

The parish church contained a baptismal font.

Meaning

  1. (Italy, Northern, feminine, historical) parish (administrative division)
  2. (Italy, Northern, broadly, collective, feminine, historical) parish (members of the parish)
  3. (Italy, Northern, broadly, feminine) parish church
  4. (Italy, Northern, broadly, feminine) the minister's house next to a parish church

Concepts

civil parish

Hyphenated as
piè‧ve, pié‧ve
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpjɛ.ve/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin plēbem. Doublet of plebe, a borrowing.

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