Noun: pitch
| Singular | pitch |
| Plural | pitches |
Sample Sentences
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It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
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Near-synonyms: tar, coal tar, asphalt, bitumen
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They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
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The barrel was sealed with pitch.
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It was pitch black because there was no moon.
Nouns inflected like pitch
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)". See: Middle English Nouns '
picche', Latin Nouns '
pix', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πίσσα', Latin Nouns '
pīnus', Dutch Nouns '
pek', German Nouns '
Pech', Catalan Nouns '
pega', French Nouns '
poix'.
Verbs referencing "pitch"
Dutch Nouns
pech, Finnish Nouns
pitchi, Galician Nouns
piche, Portuguese Nouns
piche, Spanish Nouns
piche.