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pieta

pieta is the alternative form of pietà.

Meaning of pietà

Noun

pietà (plural pietàs)

  1. A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
    • Two ladies were already in the cloister chapel, with a gentleman. As Kitty and her friend entered, these persons had just finished their inspection of the damaged but most beautiful "Pietà" which hangs over the altar, and their faces were towards the entrance.1905, Mary Augusta Ward, The Marriage of William Ashe

Forms of pieta

pluralpietas

Questions about pieta

What is pieta the alternative form of?
Pieta is the alternative form of pietà.

Words near pieta in the dictionary

  1. Piestewa
  2. Pieszchala
  3. piet
  4. piet-my-vrou
  5. piet-my-vrous
  6. pieta
  7. pietas
  8. Pietermaritzburg
  9. Pieters
  10. Pietersburg
  11. Pieterses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pieta (page history and authors); pietà (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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