pedazo

piece, chunk, hunk, bit, bite (a part of a larger whole); patch (e.g. of sky, cloth, skin, space); scrap (e.g. of paper, information); lump (e.g. of metal, rock, clay, wood); slab (e.g. of meat, of cheese)

“Un amor que se nos va / Es un pedazo del alma / Que se arranca sin piedad”

Inherited from Old Spanish pedaço, from Vulgar Latin pitaccium, consonant-length metathesis of Latin pittacium, from Ancient Greek πιττάκιον (pittákion).