pedazo
/peˈdaθo/ · A2 · noun · m
piece
🍰 pedazo: from Latin pittacium, a patch or scrap of leather — hence a piece
Latin pittacium (from Greek pittakion) meant a small patch, label or scrap of leather. Spanish turned it into pedazo: any piece broken or cut off a whole. Sound hook: peh-DAH-tho, a PAD-sized chunk of something bigger.