pía

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pia"

Galician

A pía containing holy water, Muros, Galicia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a̝/

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

• 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

Derived terms

• piar
• Peares

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

• 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)

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

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

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