Pitch

What “Pitch” means

Noun

1. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.
2. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.
3. A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
4. Pitchstone.

Verb

1. To cover or smear with pitch.
2. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

Adj

1. Very dark black; pitch-black.
2. Intense, deep, dark.

Noun

1. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
2. The act of pitching a baseball.
3. The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
4. A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
5. The field of battle.

Where the word comes from

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)".

From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick.

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