PITCH Copy link • PITCH 1. s. Resin of the pine, pix, generally picis. Degree of height, gradus: highest pitch of honor, summus honoris gradus. ☞ “To this pitch,” or “to such a pitch of”... is mostly translated by adverbs huc, eo, etc., with genitive. To this pitch of arrogance, huc arrogantiae (venire): he advanced to such a pitch of insolence, eo insolentiae processit: you seem to be aware to what a pitch of madness you have arrived, scire videmini, quo amentiae progressi sitis. In music, sonus: a high pitch, sonus acutus: a low pitch, sonus gravis. 2. v. To cover with pitch, picare; impicare (Col., 12, 29): liquida pice linire (Col., 6, 17, 6). To fasten with pitch, pice astringere (Hor., Od., 3, 8, 10). To fix, settle, ponere; statuere; collocare: to pitch a camp, castra ponere, locare, collocare, constituere; tendere: a pitched battle, pugna; acies; proelium. In music, sonare: to pitch high, acute sonare: low, graviter sonare: a pitching of the voice, conformatio vocis (Cic.).