piez
“piez” is a Romanian word. Its 3 meanings in English:
noun
In Romanian
- unitate de măsură a presiunii (egală cu presiunea produsă de forța de un sten distribuită uniform pe o suprafață de un metru pătrat).
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pēdem, accusative of pēs, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. The original sense of "foot" was attested in 17th century texts, but it later came to be used in a mostly figurative sense as it underwent semantic evolution. The development of this figurative sense (from which other expressions that are still in use today derive) may have originated from the idea of walking out with…
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