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  1. noun A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
  2. noun A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
  3. noun A whole that can be shared: "That would . . . enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar” (New York Times).
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  1. Middle English.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin pīca.
  3. Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pādikā, quarter, from pāt, pad-, foot, leg; see ped- in Indo-European roots.
  4. Medieval Latin pīca.

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  1. Formerly also pye; from Middle English pie, pye, from Irish pighe = Gael.pighe, a pie; cf. Ir.pithan, Gael, pigheann, a pie.
  2. Also pye; from Middle English pie, pye, from Old French (and F.) pie = Spanish Portuguese pega = Italian pica, from Latin pica, a magpie; perhaps, like picus, a woodpecker (see Picus), so called in allusion to its spotted appearance, from pingere (√ pic), paint: see picture. Otherwise, perhaps both may be derived, with loss of orig. initial s, from the root of specere, see: see spy. To the same source as picus, in this view, is referred English speight, a woodpecker. Hence, in comp., magpie.
  3. Also pye; from Middle English *pie (?), from Middle Latin pica: see pica.
  4. from Marathi pā'ī, a fourth, i. e. a fourth part of an anna.
  5. Spanish pie = Italian piè, foot, from Latin pes (ped-), foot. See foot.
 

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