hacia

Borrowing from Spanish hacia.

hacia

1. toward, towards

According to Coromines and Pascual, from Old Spanish fazia (attested ca. 1300), with the variant faza (att. in Cid, Berceo, Calila e Dimna), and in pre-literary Latinized spelling faze ad (att. 1208, in a legal document), from Latin faciem ad (facing towards). Unlike in faz, the final -e of Latin faciem was conserved due to appearing in an established phrase, cf. Spanish pese a and its variant pesia. Cognate with Leonese faza.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈaθja/ [ˈa.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈasja/ [ˈa.sja]
• Rhymes: -aθja
• Rhymes: -asja
• Syllabification: ha‧cia
• Homophone: (Latin America) Asia

hacia

1. toward, towards

   Сaminaremos hacia el centro de la ciudad.

   We'll walk towards the center of the city.

   El cohete se dirige hacia la luna.

   The rocket is heading towards the Moon.

   Actitudes negativas hacia personas con discapacidades

   Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities

• Often replaced with the prepositions a or more colloquially para.

• Asturian: hacia

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “hacia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 301

• “hacia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28