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Who named a pie pie? Was it the Greeks?
Who named a pie pie? Does it have to do with pi=3.14159, the relationship of the Diameter to the Circumfrence? Was it the Greeks?
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- tichurLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Middle Latin...pie (1)
"pastry," c.1300, from M.L. pie "meat or fish enclosed in pastry," perhaps related to M.L. pia "pie, pastry," also possibly connected with pica "magpie" on notion of the bird's habit of collecting miscellaneous objects. Not known outside English, except Gaelic pighe, which is from English. In the Middle Ages, a pie had many ingredients, a pastry but one. Fruit pies began to appear c.1600.
- AnnaLv 59 years ago
The word pie comes from 1250-1350 AD. The origin is middle English or Anglo-French,comes from the Latin word Pica
