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piec.

oven; furnace (device that produces high temperatures, used for heating rooms and for cooking)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Polski language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpjɛt͡s//ˈpjɛt͡s/Middle, Polish[ˈpjɛt͡s][ˈpjɛt͡s]
  1. oven; furnace (device that produces high temperatures, used for heating rooms and for cooking)

    inanimate · masculine
    Wsadź ciasto do pieca.
  2. oven; furnace (industrial device used for thermal treatment of materials in technological processes requiring very high temperatures)

    inanimate · masculine
  3. oven, furnace, retort (device for burning corpses)

    inanimate · masculine
  4. combo amp (strong amplifier set with a built-in speaker to which musicians connect their electric guitar during stage performances)

    colloquial · inanimate · masculine
  5. oven load; furnace load (number of items baked or fired at once in an oven or furnace)

    inanimate · masculine · obsolete
  6. gallery (mining or prospecting gallery, especially one that is carried through empty lands to the intersection of a salt layer)

    inanimate · masculine · obsolete
  7. synonym of piekło (“hell”) (place of execution by fire)

    Middle · Polish · inanimate · masculine
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *pektí Proto-Slavic *pȅťь Old Polish piec Polish piec Inherited from Old Polish piec (“oven”).

verb/ˈpjɛt͡s//ˈpjɛt͡s/Middle, Polish[ˈpjɛt͡s][ˈpjɛt͡s]
  1. to bake (to subject to high temperatures in an oven, on a grill etc., in order to produce or prepare a food to eat)

    imperfective · transitive
  2. to bake (to heat strongly)

    figuratively · imperfective · transitive
  3. to burn (to cause pain combined with a sensation of heat)

    imperfective · transitive
  4. to bother; to eat at; to worry

    figuratively · imperfective · obsolete · transitive
  5. to burn (to torture with fire)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · transitive
  6. to bake; to be baked (to be subjected to high temperatures in an oven or on a grill)

    imperfective · reflexive
  7. to bake (to feel intense heat)

    imperfective · reflexive
  8. to warm up

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · reflexive
  9. to burn (to be tortured with fire)

    Middle · Polish · imperfective · reflexive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti Proto-Balto-Slavic *péktei Proto-Slavic *peťì Old Polish piec Polish piec Inherited from Old Polish piec (“to bake”).

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