pi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pi"

English

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Π π
Ancient Greek: πεῖ
Wikipedia article on pi
This mosaic is outside the mathematics building at the Technische Universität Berlin.
When a circle's diameter is 1 unit, its circumference is π units.
When a circle's radius is 1 unit, its circumference is 2π units.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî). Its mathematical use apparently stems from its use as the first letter in περιφέρεια (periféreia, “periphery; circumference”) and was first cited in 1706 in the Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos by William Jones.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paɪ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ
  • Homophone: pie

Noun

pi (plural pis)

  1. The name of the sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek.
  2. (mathematics) An irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its diameter; approximately 3.14159265358979323846264338327950; usually written π.
  3. (letterpress typography) Metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered. Also called pie.

Synonyms

  • (irrational constant): Archimedes' constant, Ludolphian number, Ludolph's constant, Ludolph's number

Translations

Verb

pi (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle piing, simple past and past participle pied)

  1. (letterpress typography) To spill or mix printing type. Also, "to pie".

Adjective

pi (not comparable)

  1. (typography) Not part of the usual font character set; especially, non-Roman type or symbols as opposed to standard alphanumeric Roman type.
    In computing, pi characters are entered with special combinations of keys like ctrl-alt-x, or via character sequences such as {.

Translations

Abbreviation

pi

  1. (typography) pica (conventionally, 12 points = 1 pica, 6 picas = 1 inch)
  2. piaster
  3. pious
    • 1927, Magdalen King-Hall, I Think I Remember: Being the Random Recollections of Sir Wickham Woolicomb, an Ordinary English Snob and Gentleman
      Our Major was "Cherub" Cheeseman, noted for his foul language. I am afraid he lost a tidy little legacy that he was expecting from his aunt, the Dowager Lady Shuttlecock (a very "pi" old lady), through this same habit of his.
    • 1972, Anya Seton, Green Darkness, Hachette UK →ISBN
      “Those are very 'pi' sentiments. Was a preacher in Staffordshire— I was raised chapel, though've tried to forget it—he talked that way... redemption and the lot.”
    • 1994, Roger Gard, Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity, Yale University Press →ISBN, page 101
      In Sense and Sensibility, as even you might agree, there's at least the danger of a rather pi moral framework clamping down on the spontaneous fun and leaving the sisters to survive - a bit drearily - on the periphery of a mean world.

Anagrams

Albanian

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *pīja, from Proto-Indo-European *pih₃- (compare Greek πίνω (píno), Serbo-Croatian pìti, Italian bere).

Verb

pi (first-person singular past tense piva, participle pirë)

  1. I drink

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Usage notes

  • ai pi - he is a drinker
  • nuk pi duhan - I do not smoke
Derived terms

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin per. Compare Daco-Romanian pe.

Preposition

pi

  1. on

Berawan

Noun

pi

  1. (Central, West) water

Reference

  • Robert Blust, 2000, Low Vowel Fronting in Northern Sarawak, Oceanic Linguistics, 39:2, pp. 285-319, page 316
  • Robert Blust, 2006, The Origin of the Kelabit Voiced Aspirates: A Historical Hypothesis Revisited, Oceanic Linguistics, 45:2, pages 311-338

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan pin, from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

Noun

pi m (plural pins)

  1. pine; evergreen tree of the genus Pinus.
  2. pinewood
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

pi f (plural pis)

  1. Pi; the Greek letter Π (lowercase π).

Chachi

Noun

pi

  1. water
  2. river

References

  • Peter W. Stahl, Archaeology in the Lowland American Tropics (2006, →ISBN, page 253
  • Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin pes, pedem.

Noun

pi m (plural pič)

  1. foot

Danish

Proper noun

pi

  1. pi (number)
  2. pi (letter)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/

Etymology 1

Noun

pi m (plural pi)

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. (mathematics) pi

Etymology 2

Conjunction

pi

  1. (Quebec, colloquial) Alternative spelling of pis and.

Further reading

Greenlandic

Root

pi

  1. Means nothing in particular.

Usage notes

See note at su.

Derived terms

Guambiano

Noun

pi

  1. water
  2. river

References

  • Beatriz Vásquez de Ruiz, La predicación en guambiano (Colciencias, 1988)
  • Randall Q. Huber, Robert B. Reed, Comparative vocabulary, page 86, 1992

Inuktitut

Noun

pi

  1. Latin spelling of ᐱ (pi)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Stress: pì
  • Hyphenation: pi

Etymology 1

From Latin pē (the name of the letter P).

Noun

pi f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter P/p.; pee
See also

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî, the name of the Greek letter Π).

Noun

pi m (invariable)

  1. The name of the Greek-script letter Π/π; pi
  2. (mathematics) Synonym of pi greco
Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

pi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぴ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ピ

Kedah Malay

Pronunciation

Verb

pi

  1. Go
    Satgi kalau depa nak pi keluaq dah, habaq kat aku awai sikit noh, satgi tak dan.
    If they are ready to go out, please inform me earlier, so that I won't be late.
    Hang ni oghang kata pa pun bukan nak dengaq, mampuih pi kat hang la.
    You never listen, just go to hell
  2. Do
    Hangpa pi bedak elok-elok bagi sama banyak buah moktan tu, satgi baghu tak berkelai.
    You should split the rambutans equally between yourselves, then you won't have to fight over it.
    Awat yang hang pi pukui dia, satgi dia bawak mai geng pi taboh hang pulak, lagu mana?
    Why did you hit him, don't you afraid he might summon his gang to beat you up?

See also

Lango (Uganda)

Noun

pì

  1. water

References

  • Michael P. Noonan, A Grammar of Lango [Uganda]

Luo

Noun

pi

  1. water

References

  • Benny Garell Blount, Acquisition of Language by Luo Children (1969), page 57
  • Roy Lawrence Stafford, An elementary Luo grammar, page 24, 1967

Mandarin

Romanization

pi

  1. Nonstandard spelling of pī.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of pí.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of pǐ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of pì.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norman

Alternative forms

  • pyid (continental Normandy)
  • pid (Jersey, Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French pié, from Latin pēs, pedis, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Noun

pi m (plural pis)

  1. (Sark, anatomy) foot

Nuer

Noun

pi

  1. water

Reference

  • Joseph Pasquale Crazzolara, Outlines of a Nuer grammar, page 28, 1933

Pali

Alternative forms

Particle

pi

  1. an emphatic particle

Conjunction

pi

  1. also, even so
  2. even

References

  • pi in Pali Text Society (1921–1925), Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead. (licensed under CC-BY-NC)

Pirahã

Alternative forms

Noun

pi

  1. water[3]
  2. thorn[1]

Reference

  1. 1 2 Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 1, 1986
  2. ↑ Čestmír Loukotka, ‎Johannes Wilbert (editor), Classification of South American Indian Languages (1968, Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California), page(s) 96 (as pé, ipé)
  3. ↑ Pirahã Dictionary/ Dicionário Mura-Pirahã

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi/

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek πεῖ (peî).

Noun

pi m (plural pis)

  1. pi (name of the Greek letter Π, π)

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Alternative forms

Interjection

pi

  1. bleep (high-pitched sound)

Quechua

Pronoun

pi

  1. who

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pîː/

Noun

pȋ n (Cyrillic spelling пи̑)

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. pi (mathematical constant)

Shilluk

Noun

pi

  1. water

Reference

  • B. Kohnen, Shilluk grammar : with a little English-Shilluk dictionary, Missioni Africane, Vérone, Italie, 317 pages, page 313, 1933

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpíː/
  • Tonal orthography: pȋ

Noun

pí m inan (genitive píja or pí, nominative plural píji or pí)

  1. pi (Greek letter)
  2. pi (mathematical constant)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

pi f (plural píes)

  1. pi; the Greek letter Π, π

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iː

Noun

pi n

  1. (mathematics) pi, a constant
  2. pi; a Greek letter

Totoro

Noun

pi

  1. water

Reference

Tsafiki

Noun

pi

  1. water

Reference

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pii, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *piŋe.

Noun

pi

  1. tooth (protrusion of certain objects, e.g. a saw, rake)

Inflection

Inflection of pi
nominative sing. pi
genitive sing. pin
partitive sing. pid
partitive plur. pid
singular plural
nominative pi pid
accusative pin pid
genitive pin piden
partitive pid pid
essive-instructive pin pin
translative pikš pikš
inessive piš piš
elative pišpäi pišpäi
illative ? pihe
adessive pil pil
ablative pilpäi pilpäi
allative pile pile
abessive pita pita
comitative pinke pidenke
prolative pidme pidme
approximative I pinno pidenno
approximative II pinnoks pidennoks
egressive pinnopäi pidennopäi
terminative I ? pihesai
terminative II pilesai pilesai
terminative III pissai —
additive I ? pihepäi
additive II pilepäi pilepäi

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “зуб”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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