pía

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Galician

A pía containing holy water, Muros, Galicia

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

  1. sink
  2. basin
    • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

  1. (archaic) column
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Verb

pía

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

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.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish pige.

Pronunciation

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

Further reading

Leonese

Etymology

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Noun

pía f (plural pías)

  1. foot

References

Spanish

Etymology 1

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

  1. (Honduras) piha (bird)

Etymology 2

Adjective

pía

  1. feminine singular of pío

Etymology 3

Verb

pía

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

Further reading

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