pía

pía

See also: pia, Pia, PIA, piá, Pià, Pîa, pi'a, and Appendix:Variations of "pia"

Galician

A pía containing holy water, Muros, Galicia

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pīla (“mortar”). Cognate with Portuguese pia and Spanish pila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a̝/

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

1. sink
2. basin
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:

     Et, el estando en Almaria, hũu mouro, seu priuado, que auja nume Abenaramamj̃, conuidoo et enbeuedoo et afogoo en hũa pia de agua que tĩjna en sua casa

     And, while in Almeria, a Moor, his man, who was called Abenaramamin, invited him and made him drunk and drowned him in a water basin he had at his house

3. baptismal font

   Synonym: pía bautismal

4. trough

   Synonyms: barcal, dorna

5. hole on a surface

Derived terms

• Pía
• pía bautismal
• Piela
• Pío
• Píos

Etymology 2

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“pillar”). Cognate with Portuguese pilha and Spanish pila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a̝/

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

1. (archaic) column

Derived terms

• piar
• Peares

References

• “pia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pia” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pía” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pía” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pía” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish pige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰiːja/

  Rhymes: -iːja

Noun

pía f (genitive singular píu, nominative plural píur)

1. (dated) maidservant
2. (informal) babe, chick (attractive woman)

Declension

declension of pía

f-w1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pía	pían	píur	píurnar
accusative	píu	píuna	píur	píurnar
dative	píu	píunni	píum	píunum
genitive	píu	píunnar	pía	píanna

Derived terms

• barnapía

Further reading

• “pía” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

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Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

1. foot

References

• AEDLL

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Spanish

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

1. (Honduras) piha (bird)

Adjective

pía

1. feminine singular of pío

Verb

pía

1. inflection of piar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014