pía

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a̝/

pía f (plural pías)

1. sink
2. basin
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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 and Old Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“pillar”). Cognate with Portuguese pilha and Spanish pila.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a̝/

pía f (plural pías)

1. (archaic) column

• piar
• Peares

• “pia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “pia” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

From Danish pige, from Old Norse píka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰiːja/

  Rhymes: -iːja

pía f (genitive singular píu, nominative plural píur)

1. (informal, somewhat dated) girl

pía f (plural pías)

1. foot

• AEDLL

pía

1. Feminine singular of adjective pío.

pía

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of piar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of piar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of piar.