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píosa

píosa

See also: pìosa

Irish

Noun

píosa m ‎(genitive singular píosa, nominative plural píosaí)

piece, bit (part of a larger whole; artistic creation)
1. patch (on clothing, cloth)
2. piecework
3. literary or musical composition
4. coin
5. (nautical) bailing-can, bailer

Declension

Declension of píosa

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	píosa	píosaí
Vocative	a phíosa	a phíosaí
Genitive	píosa	píosaí
Dative	píosa	píosaí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an píosa	na píosaí
Genitive	an phíosa	na bpíosaí
Dative	leis an bpíosa don phíosa	leis na píosaí

Derived terms

Terms derived from píosa

píosa ceoil ‎(“piece of music”)
píosa croise, píosa crosach ‎(“coin engraved with cross, florin”)
píosa den lá ‎(“part of the day”)
píosa den tír a shiúl ‎(“to travel a bit of the country”)
píosa de scéal ‎(“bit, portion, of a story”)

píosa de théad ‎(“length of rope”)
píosa dheich bpingine ‎(“tenpenny piece”)
píosa feola ‎(“portion of meat”)
píosa lóin ‎(“lunch-packet”)
píosa óir ‎(“gold piece”)

píosa ordanáis ‎(“cannon”)
píosa páipéir ‎(“piece of paper”)
píosa scríbhneoireachta ‎(“piece of writing”)
píosa talaimh ‎(“piece, patch, of ground”)
tríd an bpíosa ‎(“on the whole”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
píosa	phíosa	bpíosa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"píosa" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“písa” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“píosa” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.