pía

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pia"

Galician

A pía containing holy water, Muros, Galicia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpia/ [ˈpi.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: pí‧a

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

   Synonyms: buraco, foca

Derived terms

• Pía
• pía bautismal
• Piela
• Pío
• Píos

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

   Synonym: columna

Derived terms

• Peares
• piar

Etymology 3

Verb

pía

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

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pía”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pía”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pía”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed 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 (feminine)

	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)

Leonese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpia/, [ˈpi.a]
• Hyphenation: pí‧a

Noun

pía f (plural pías)

1. foot

References

• AEDLL

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpia/ [ˈpi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: pí‧a

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

• “pía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10