piece

piece
subs.
Part: P. and V. μέρος, τό, μοῖρα, ἡ, P. μόριον, τό.
Portion cut off: P. τμῆμα, τό.
Fragment: V. θραῦσμα, τό, σπά̆ραγμα, τό, ἀ̆γή, ἡ.
Play: Ar. and P. δρᾶμα, τό.
Piece of money: Ar. and P. ἀργύριον, τό.
Piece of gold: Ar. and P. χρῡσίον, τό.
Piece of copper: Ar. χαλκίον, τό.
Of a piece, similar, met.: P. and V. ὁμοῖος, P. παραπλήσιος.
Of a piece with: P. παρόμοιος (dat.), παραπλήσιος (dat.), P. and V. ὁμοῖος (dat.).
Tear in pieces: see under piecemeal.
Break in pieces: P. and V. συντρί̄βειν (Eur. Cycl.), Ar. and V. θραύειν (Plat. also but rare P.), V. συνθραύειν, σῠνᾰράσσειν, ἐρείκειν, P. διαθραύειν (Plat.).
Fall to pieces: P. and V. διαρρεῖν.
Met., Ar. and P. διᾰλύ̄εσθαι.

piece
v. trans.
Piece together: P. and V. συντῐθέναι, σῠναρμόζειν.

PIECE

s. Part of anything pars (general term): fragmentum (a piece broken off): segmentum (cut off): frustum (a small or loose piece): to cut in pieces in partes concidere; minutim concidere; minutatim consectare; in frusta desecare: all of one piece solidus: a piece of money nummus.

A single thing res.

A musical composition cantus; canticum. To compose a piece (i.e. a musical piece) modos facere: modos musicos componere (after Quint. 1 12 14; an air): cantum rescribere vocum sonis (Cic. Tusc. 4 2 3); musicis modis canticum excipere (Quint. and others).

piece (subs.).

I. A bit of anything:

1. very oft. not expr. by any separate word, the subs. denoting that of which a piece is taken, being used: a dog carrying a p. of meat, canis carnem ferens, Phaedr. 1, 4: so id. 1, 13, 3, de fenestra raptus caseus (= a p. of cheese): cf. Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97, quum cibarius ei panis (a p. of brown bread) datus esset: so, a p. of paper, charta, chartula (v. PAPER): a p. of ground, ager, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 94: a small p. of ground, agellus: more precisely, paulum agelli, id. Ad. 5, 8, 26. (N.B.--The subs. alone may generally be used of that which is wont to be met with in pieces.)

2. frustum (a roughly shaped bit, strictly, formed by breaking off): Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27 (of bits falling from the mouths of fowl feeding): mouldy p.s of bread, mucida panis f., Juv. 14, 128: to cut up (a carcass) in p.s, in frusta secare, Virg. Aen. 1, 212 (not a phr. suitable for prose).

3. segmentum: v. SLICE. Phr.: (i.) to cut in p.s: minute (minutim, minutatim) concidere, consecare: v. TO CUT TO PIECES. (ii.) to break into p.s: (1). commĭnuo, i, ūtum, 3 (to break to shivers): to break a statue in p.s and scatter them abroad, statuam c., dissipare, Cic. in Pis. 38, 93: to break in p.s (smash) crystal vessels, vasa crystallina c., Petr. 64: Plin. (2). confringo, frēgi, fractum, 3 (infreq.): to break in p.s jars and cups, aulas calicesque c., Pl. Capt. 4, 4, 8: to break in p.s a potter's vessel, vas figuli c., Vulg. Ps. ii. 9. (Diffringo, to break in two: rare.) (iii.) to tear in p.s: (1). conscindo, scĭdi, scissum, 3 (as a fabric is torn): Cic.: v. TO TEAR. (2). discerpo, psi, ptum, 3 (as a body of any kind is rent and disintegrated): dogs tear in p.s the corpse, cadaver d. canes, Suet. Dom. 15: Cic. (3). dīvello, i, vulsum, 3 (like preced.): to tear a body in p.s and scatter it on the waves, corpus d. et undis spargere, Virg. Aen. 4, 600: Ov.: Hor. (4). dīlănio, 1 (to tear and mangle flesh): v. TO TEAR, MANGLE. (iv.) to pull to p.s: discerpo, 3: v. supr. (iii, 2). In fig. sense, to pull any one to p.s, vitia colligere in aliquem Cic. Tusc. 4, 37, 80: also, carpere (aliquem), Cic. Bal. 26, 57; more fully, sermonibus carpere, Liv. 7, 12, ad fin.: and with reference to rumour spread abroad, differre: cf. Tac. A. 1, 4, dominos variis rumoribus differebant. (v.) to take to p.s: (1). dissolvo, vi, ūtum, 3 (by unfastening bonds of connexion; usu. implying the destruction of that which is taken to p.s): to take to p.s what has been united, apta d., Cic. Or. 71, 235. (2). dissuo, i, sūtum, 3 (by unstitching): v. TO UNSTITCH. (vi.) to go or fall to p.s: (1). expr. by pass. refl. of solvo, dissolvo, 3: the ship goes to p.s in the sea, solvitur in aequore navis, Ov. Pont. 1, 4, 18 cf. Cic. Att. 15, 11, dissolutum navigium. So, navis solutilis, a ship made so as to fall to pieces: Suet. Ner. 34. (2). dīlābor, psus, 3 (gradually; by the process of wearing and wasting): a ship decayed and falling to p.s from age, navis putris et vetustate dilabens, Liv. (Forc.): Sen. (vii.) all in (of) one p.: sometimes perh., sŏlĭdus (R. and A.). A garment all of one p, *vestimentum suturis carens. Fig.: to be all of a p., convenire, congruere; nihil sibi discrepare: v. TO AGREE.

II. A coin: nŏmisma, ătis, n. (Gr. νόμισμα): v. COIN. (Numus or nummus usu. = ready money in general or some particular coin, as the didrachma, or the sestertius.)

III A written composition: lĭber, lĭbellus, fābŭla, carmen, etc. acc. to the character of the composition.

IV. A musical composition: perh. cantus, concentus, mŏdus, etc.: v. MUSIC (II.).

V Of artillery tormentum (usu. pl.): v. ARTILLERY

piece (v.): perh. sarcio, rĕsarcio, 4: v. TO MEND. Phr.: to p. cloth, *pannum assuere v. TO SEW ON.

γράμμα
γράμμα, line, picture; letter (of alphabet); piece of writing
ἀργύριον
a piece of silver, a silver coin
μόριον
a piece, portion, section
χρυσίον
a piece of gold
κτῆμα
anything gotten, a piece of property, a possession
χῶρος
a piece of ground, ground, place
κρέας
flesh, meat, a piece of meat
τέμενος
a piece of land cut off, assigned as a domain
τμῆμα
a part cut off, a section, piece
ἔντερον
an intestine, piece of gut
ἐνθύμημα
a thought, piece of reasoning, argument
ὀθόνιον
a piece of fine linen
εὐτύχημα
a piece of good luck, a happy issue, a success
ναυάγιον
a piece of wreck
ὑποθήκη
a suggestion, counsel, warning, piece of advice

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αὐτούργημα
a piece of one’s own work
αὔλημα
a piece of music for the aulos
βωμολόχευμα
a piece of low flattery
γήδιον
a piece of land
γλωττίς
the mouth-piece of a pipe
δαίδαλον
cunning work, piece of artistic workmanship
δαλός
a fire-brand, piece of blazing wood
δημιούργημα
a work of art, piece of workmanship
διάξυλον
cross-piece
διφθέρα
a prepared hide, tanned skin, piece of leather
δυσκλήρημα
piece of ill luck
δυστύχημα
a piece of ill luck, a failure
εὐδαιμόνημα
piece of good luck
εὐκλήρημα
a piece of good fortune
ζυγοτράχηλον
neck-piece of yoke
θραῦσμα
that which is broken, a fragment, wreck, piece
θρόμβος
a lump, piece
θρύμμα
that which is broken off, a piece, bit
θυμάλωψ
a piece of burning wood
θώπευμα
a piece of flattery
καττύς
piece of leather
κεστρῖνος
pieces of the fish
κιθάρισμα
that which is played on the cithara, a piece of music for it
κολάκευμα
a piece of flattery
κρεουργηδόν
like a butcher, in pieces
κρητάριον
creta, piece of chalk
κωπεύς
pieces of wood fit for making oars, oar-spars
κόλουσμα
that which is cut off, a piece
κόπαιον
piece
λογοποίημα
idle tale, piece of gossip
μάγευμα
a piece of magic art
μίστυλλον
piece of meat
μαγγάνευμα
a piece of jugglery
μεσαύλιον
piece of aulos-music
μηρίον
thigh - pieces
μολύβδαινα
a piece of lead
μυστίλη
a piece of bread
ξυλήφιον
a piece of wood, a stick
ξύλωμα
piece of woodwork
οἶβος
piece of meat from the back of an ox’s neck
παιπάλημα
a piece of subtlety
παράπλασμα
piece of coloured wax stuck on to the margin
παραλήρημα
piece of absurdity
πεντέχαλκον
piece of five χαλκοῖ
πεντανούμμιον
a piece of five sesterces
προμετωπίδιον
skin of the forehead, frontpiece, chest piece
προτόνιον
piece of temple-furniture
πυρεῖον
pieces of wood
σαγμάτιον
piece of clothing, cloak (dim.)
σμίλευμα
a piece of carved work
σπάραγμα
a piece torn off, a piece, shred, fragment
σπεῖρον
a piece of cloth
σταιτίον
piece of dough
σφηκίσκος
a piece of wood pointed like a wasp’s tail, a pointed stick
σχίδαξ
piece of wood cut off, lath, splinter
σχίζα
a piece of wood cleft off, a lath, splinter
σχοίνισμα
piece of land measured out by the σχοῖνος
σωσάνιον
shoulder-piece of a coat of mail
σῦφαρ
a piece of old or wrinkled skin, slough of a serpent; adj. decrepit
τετρώβολον
a four-obol piece
τρίγυον
a piece of three
τρίμνως
a three-mina piece
τραγῴδημα
piece of play-acting
τροφαλίς
a piece
τρύφος
that which is broken off, a piece, morsel, lump
φέψαλος
a spark, piece of the embers
φεψάλυξ
spark, piece of embers (something negligible)
φλογίς
piece of broiled flesh
χίασμα
cross-piece of wood
χορδοτόνον
tail-piece for keeping the strings taut
χρυσίδιον
a small piece of gold
χρυσίς
a vessel of gold, piece of gold plate
ἀγή
a fragment, piece, splinter
ἀλαζόνευμα
an imposture, piece of quackery
ἀντιζυγόω
insert cross-pieces
ἀποσχαλίδωμα
a forked piece of wood for propping hunting-nets
ἀπόσπασμα
that which is torn off, a piece, rag, shred
ἀπότμημα
anything cut off, piece
ἀργυρίδιον
a small piece of silver, a silver coin
ἀργυρωμάτιον
piece of silverware
ἔγκνισμα
a piece of meat
ἶπος
the piece of wood that falls and catches
ὁλοσφύριον
piece of beaten metal

pars
a part, piece, portion, share, division, section
limen
a cross-piece, threshold, head-piece, lintel, sill
nummus
a piece of money, coin, money
galea
a helmet, head-piece
testa
a piece of burned clay, brick, tile
pannus
a piece of cloth, garment of cloth
tignum
building-materials, a piece of timber, trunk of a tree, log, stick, post, beam
frustum
a piece, bit
fragmentum
a piece broken off, piece, remnant, fragment

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bolus
a throw (of dice, etc.); hence, a haul, piece of luck
fragmen
a broken piece, fragment
glaebula
a little piece of earth, bit of land
morsum
a bit, little piece
nomisma
a piece of money, coin
pseudomenos
in logic, a false syllogism, piece of sophistry
raudusculum
a little piece of brass money
rutula
a little piece of rue
tetrachmum
a Grecian silver coin of four drachmas, four-drachma piece
textile
(opus textile) web, fabric, piece of cloth, canvas