peu

From a variant of Old Occitan pe, from Latin pēs, pedem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Compare Esperanto piedo, French pied, Ido pedo, Interlingua pede, Italian piede, Latin pes, Latvian pēda, Lithuanian pėdės, Portuguese pé, Sardinian pei, Spanish pie.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛw/
• Rhymes: -ɛw

peu m (plural peus)

1. (anatomy) foot

• dempeus

• “peu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old French poi, from Latin paucus, from Proto-Italic *paukus, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few”, “little”). Compare Catalan poc, Italian poco, Portuguese pouco, Spanish poco. Cognate with English few.

• IPA^(key): /pø/

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• Rhymes: -ø

peu

1. little; not very much/many

   Il est peu intelligent.

   He is not very intelligent.

   (literally, “He is little intelligent.”)

peu m (uncountable)

1. few

   Peu de gens sont d’accord - Few people agree

2. little

   un peu - a little

   Je te donne le peu d’argent que j’ai - I’ll give you the little money I have

   Je n’aime pas beaucoup ce café mais j’en ai bu un peu - I don’t like this coffee very much but I drank a little of it or I don’t like this coffee very much but I drank some of it

• à peu près
• peu à peu
• peu de

• “peu” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• pue, pué

From Old French peor, from Latin pavor, pavōrem (“fear, fright”).

peu f (plural peus)

1. fear

• aveur peu