pía

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a̝/

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pīla (“mortar”). Cognate with Portuguese pia and Spanish pila.

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

• Pía
• pía bautismal
• Piela
• Pío
• Píos

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“pillar”). Cognate with Portuguese pilha and Spanish pila.

pía f (plural pías)

1. (archaic) column

• piar
• Peares

pía

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

• 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: ILG
• 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

From Danish pige.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰiːja/

  Rhymes: -iːja

pía f (genitive singular píu, nominative plural píur)

1. (dated) maidservant
2. (informal) babe, chick (attractive woman)

• barnapía

• “pía” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

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pía f (plural pías)

1. foot

• AEDLL

pía f (plural pías)

1. (Honduras) piha (bird)

pía

1. feminine singular of pío

pía

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

• “pía”, 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