faia

From Old Galician-Portuguese faia, from Latin fāgea, nominalization of [materia] fāgea (“beech wood”), derived from Latin fāgus (“beech tree”). Compare Portuguese faia, Asturian faya, Spanish haya, and Catalan faja.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaja̝/

faia f (plural faias)

1. beech, especially the common beech (Fagus sylvatica)

• Faeira
• Faia
• faiado
• faiar
• faio

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “faia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “faia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (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), “faia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “faia”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

faia

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

Inherited from Latin fāgea, nominalization of [materia] fāgea (“beech wood”), derived from Latin fāgus (“beech tree”).

faia f (plural faias)

1. beech, especially the common beech (Fagus sylvatica)

• Galician: faia
• Portuguese: faia

• Universo Cantigas - "faia"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese faia, from Latin fāgea, nominalization of [materia] fāgea (“beech wood”), derived from Latin fāgus (“beech tree”). Compare Galician faia, Asturian faya, Spanish haya, and Catalan faja.

• Hyphenation: fai‧a

faia f (plural faias)

1. beech (tree of genus Fagus)
2. faya (tree of species Myrica faya)

   Synonyms: faia-das-ilhas, faia-da-terra, samouco

• faial

faia

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