English → Latin
“piece” in Latin
parsa part, portion, piece, share; pars ... pars ..., some ... others ...; a party, fraction, sidefragmentuma piece (broken off), remnant, fragmentsēgmentumcutting; cut; slice; piece; segment; strip; zone (of the earth); strips of tinsel sewn around the bottom of a dressfrustuma piece, bit; crumb, morsel, scrap of foodcanōto sing, recite, play; to sound, play, blow (a trumpet), especially a military call; to foretell, predict, prophesycanticumsong; passage in a comedy chanted or sung; sing-song voicesolidusdense, solid, not hollow; whole, entire, thorough, full; firmnummusa coin, piece of moneyprōdūcōto lead or bring forth, forward or out; to conduct to; bring before, present; to draw or stretch out, lengthen, extendsarciōto patch, botch, mend, repair, restore; to make amends, recompense
The English word piece itself goes back to Latin pettia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
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 v.
To enlarge by the addition of a piece, producere, assuere aliquid alicui (to stitch one thing to another): to piece out, trahere; proferre.
To patch, sarcire: resarcire (e.g., a garment): vesti panniculum assuere (Horace).
To join, rem rei, or cum re, jungere, copulare, connectere.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for piece?
- The usual Latin words for “piece” are pars, fragmentum, sēgmentum; also frustum, canō, canticum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.