"pittance" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɪtəns/, [ˈpʰɪʔn̩s] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pittance.wav Forms: pittances [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English pitaunce, from Old French pitance, pitence, from Medieval Latin *pietāntia, from Latin pietās (“piety”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|pitaunce}} Middle English pitaunce, {{der|en|fro|pitance}} Old French pitance, {{der|en|ML.|*pietāntia}} Medieval Latin *pietāntia, {{der|en|la|pietās||piety}} Latin pietās (“piety”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} pittance (plural pittances)
  1. A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal. Translations (small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal): подаяние (podajanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), mitätön ateria (Finnish), pitance [feminine] (French), pitanza [feminine] (Galician), Hungermahlzeit [feminine] (German), pietanza [feminine] (Italian), resztki [feminine, plural] (Polish), ostatki [feminine, plural] (Polish), pitanza [feminine] (Sicilian), muzzucuni [masculine] (Sicilian), muḍḍica [feminine] (Sicilian)
    Sense id: en-pittance-en-noun-OZ3LCVws Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 48 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 37 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 30 32 39 Disambiguation of 'small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal': 87 11 2
  2. A meagre allowance of money or wages. Translations (meagre allowance of money or wages): оскъдно заплащане (oskǎdno zaplaštane) (Bulgarian), sulteløn (english: salary) [common-gender] (Danish), nälkäpalkka (Finnish), pikkuraha (Finnish), pikkusumma (Finnish), Hungerlohn [masculine] (German), شندرغاز (šenderğâz) (Persian), mixaria (Portuguese), скудное жалование (skudnoje) [neuter] (Russian), milostinja [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), crkavica (Serbo-Croatian), сића (sića) [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), spottstyver [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pittance-en-noun-kigMIVbZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 48 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 37 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 30 32 39 Disambiguation of 'meagre allowance of money or wages': 15 85 1
  3. A small amount. Translations (a small amount): rahtu (Finnish), rahtunen (Finnish), hitunen (Finnish), Almosen [plural] (German), miseria (Italian), anticchia [feminine] (Sicilian), muḍḍica [feminine] (Sicilian), stizza [feminine] (Sicilian), jitu [masculine] (Sicilian), miseria [feminine] (Spanish), üç kuruş (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-pittance-en-noun-vrtbMj06 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Sicilian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 48 10 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 29 31 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 37 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 30 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 29 31 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 24 25 51 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 26 28 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 27 28 45 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 31 27 43 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 27 28 45 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 27 28 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 26 27 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 26 29 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 26 29 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 30 32 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 26 27 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 27 28 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Sicilian translations: 27 28 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 26 27 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 26 28 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 26 28 46 Disambiguation of 'a small amount': 6 1 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pittance payment, pittancer

Inflected forms

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        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "*pietāntia"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin *pietāntia",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "pietās",
        "4": "",
        "5": "piety"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin pietās (“piety”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English pitaunce, from Old French pitance, pitence, from Medieval Latin *pietāntia, from Latin pietās (“piety”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pittances",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pittance (plural pittances)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pit‧tance"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "allowance",
          "allowance"
        ],
        [
          "scanty",
          "scanty"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 74:",
          "text": "In the very prime of life, Mr. Glentworth found every prospect gone; he had only a meagre pittance, compared to his former expenditure; but he had neither the habits nor the opportunity of increasing it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:",
          "text": "So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Dad was forced to claim benefit money from the government. It was a pittance, barely enough to live on.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A meagre allowance of money or wages."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "meagre",
          "meagre"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 24, Sam Jones, “Ill-fated Spanish village poised to be destroyed a third time”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The former residents of Fraguas, who sold up for a pittance, have swung behind the resettlement, happy to see life return to the narrow lanes where they grew up.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small amount."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɪtəns/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpʰɪʔn̩s]"
    },
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podajanie",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "подаяние"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "word": "mitätön ateria"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pitance"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pitanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Hungermahlzeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pietanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "resztki"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "ostatki"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pitanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "muzzucuni"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muḍḍica"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oskǎdno zaplaštane",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "word": "оскъдно заплащане"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "english": "salary",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sulteløn"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "word": "nälkäpalkka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "word": "pikkuraha"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "word": "pikkusumma"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hungerlohn"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šenderğâz",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "word": "شندرغاز"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "word": "mixaria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skudnoje",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "скудное жалование"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "milostinja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "word": "crkavica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "roman": "sića",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сића"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "meagre allowance of money or wages",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "spottstyver"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "word": "rahtu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "word": "rahtunen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "word": "hitunen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "Almosen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "word": "miseria"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anticchia"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "muḍḍica"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stizza"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jitu"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "miseria"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a small amount",
      "word": "üç kuruş"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pittance"
}

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