Definitions for Pieta

Pieta Pie·tà

Spelling: [pee-ey-tah, pyey-tah, pee-ey-tuh,
IPA: /ˌpi eɪˈtɑ, pyeɪˈtɑ, piˈeɪ tə, ˈpyeɪ-/

Pieta is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Pieta (aeipt).

Definitions for Pieta

noun

  1. a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the body of the dead Christ, usually shown held on her lap.

Origin of Pieta

1635-45; Italian: literally, pity Latin pietās piety; cf. pity

Examples for Pieta

It was when she came to pictures of the pieta that she burst out.

We might, perhaps, have recognized it in the pieta in St. Peter's.

All the saints were there in assorted sizes, the pieta, the cradle in the manger.

Langler said hardly anything, and only once spoke to Herr Tschudi, when he called out: "Is this pieta ancient?"

She remembered how once she had stood with him in St. Peter's—in front of the "pieta."

You didn't read the words in raised letters on the base of the pieta?

The pieta is not at all in any of the moods of old Northern work, and it bears the initials of Max Dees, who most likely made it.

In the same hall is the last work of Titian, a pieta, or figure of the dead Christ upon his mother's knees.

Her new single, “pieta,” is something you can worship and blaspheme at the same time.

Aida closes the scene with the same prayer to Heaven "pieta!"

Word Value for Pieta
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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