PIEとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) enPR: pī, IPA^(key): /paɪ/
• 異形同音異義語: pi, π
• 韻: -aɪ

語源 1

From Middle English pye, pie, probably from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests).

名詞

pie (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pies)

1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.

   The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.

2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

   Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.

3. (Northeastern 米国用法) Pizza.
4. (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
   • 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek‎^[1]:

     It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.

5. (letterpress typography) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
6. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
7. (derogatory) a gluttonous person.
8. A pie chart.
   • 1986, Carolyn Sorensen, Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide, page 8:

     Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.

9. (slang) The vulva.
   • 1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box:

     "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.

   • 2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park, page 238:

     Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.

派生語

参考

• pastie
• pasty

動詞

pie (三人称単数 現在形 pies, 現在分詞 pieing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pied)

1. (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

   I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.

2. (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
3. (transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
   • 1943, Esther Forbes Hoskins, Johnny Tremain:

     The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.

語源 2

From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”). Cognate with speight.

名詞

pie (複数形 pies)

2. (obsolete) Magpie.

派生語

• piebald

語源 3

Borrowed from Hindi पाई (pāī, “quarter”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā).

名詞

pie (複数形 pie または pies)

1. (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to ¹⁄₁₉₂ of a rupee or ¹⁄₁₂ of an anna.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 117:

     I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.

アナグラム

• EIP, EPI, Epi, IEP, P.E.I., PEI, Pei, epi, epi-, ipe, ipé

Latin

副詞

piē (comparative pius, superlative pissimē)

1. piously, devoutly
2. dutifully, loyally

形容詞

pie

1. vocative masculine singular of pius

参照

• pie in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pie in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be an earnest worshipper of the gods: deos sancte, pie venerari