pia

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English

Etymology 1

Noun

pia

  1. (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.
    • 2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer:
      One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.

Etymology 2

Noun

pia (uncountable)

  1. A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot.

Anagrams

Allentiac

Noun

pia (plural pia-guiam)

  1. father

References

  • Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913) (in notes)
  • Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

Comanche

Noun

pia

  1. mother

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian pio, French pieux, English pious, all from Latin pius (pious, devout). Compare Spanish pío, Romanian pios.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)

  1. pious
    Antonym: malpia

Related terms

Farefare

Farefare cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : pia
    Ordinal : bʋpia dãana

Etymology

Cognate with Moore piiga (ten).

Numeral

pia

  1. ten

Derived terms

Related terms

Galician

Verb

pia

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of piar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀaq (wild taro).

Noun

pia

  1. Polynesian arrowroot
  2. starch
  3. a variety of taro
  4. a variety of sweet potato

Etymology 2

From English beer.

Noun

pia

  1. beer

Etymology 3

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

Noun

pia

  1. stork
    Synonyms: kikonia, kekoleka

References

  • Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “pia”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from piál.

Pronunciation

Noun

pia (plural piák)

  1. (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pia piák
accusative piát piákat
dative piának piáknak
instrumental piával piákkal
causal-final piáért piákért
translative piává piákká
terminative piáig piákig
essive-formal piaként piákként
essive-modal
inessive piában piákban
superessive pián piákon
adessive piánál piáknál
illative piába piákba
sublative piára piákra
allative piához piákhoz
elative piából piákból
delative piáról piákról
ablative piától piáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
piáé piáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
piáéi piákéi
Possessive forms of pia
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. piám piáim
2nd person sing. piád piáid
3rd person sing. piája piái
1st person plural piánk piáink
2nd person plural piátok piáitok
3rd person plural piájuk piáik

Derived terms

Further reading

  • pia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Adjective

pia f sg

  1. feminine singular of pio

Anagrams

Krio

Etymology

From English [alligator] pear.

Noun

pia

  1. avocado

Latin

Adjective

pia

  1. inflection of pius:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

piā

  1. ablative feminine singular of pius

References

Lolopo

Etymology

From Tai. Compare Thai ผ้า (pâa) and ᦕᦱᧉ (ṗhaa²).

Pronunciation

Noun

pia 

  1. (Yao'an) clothes

Mandarin

Romanization

pia

  1. Nonstandard spelling of piā.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Marshallese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Micronesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀa, *biʀa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piʀah, *biʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *piʀaS, *biʀaS. Cognate with Paiwan bias, Bikol Central piga, Karo Batak pira.

Alternative forms

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

  1. fish roe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English beer.

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

  1. beer

References

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pie.

Noun

pia

  1. foot
  2. leg

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: pi‧a

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (mortar).

Noun

pia f (plural pias)

  1. sink (basin with a drain)
  2. a sink and adjacent counter
    Deixe o prato na pia, mas não dentro.
    Leave the plate on the counter, not in the sink.
  3. a basin for holding water, in particular one that is furniture or part of the building rather than a movable object
    pia batismalbaptismal font
Descendants
  • Hunsrik: Pia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

pia f sg

  1. feminine singular of pio

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pia

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

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpja/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: pia

Verb

pia

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of piar

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adverb

pia

  1. also
    Synonym: vilevile
  2. all (used with -ote for emphasis)

West Makian

Pronunciation

Noun

pia

  1. rice

Alternative forms

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics