pia

pia

1. (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord
   • 2009, January 25, “Denis Campbell”, in Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place‎:

     One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.

pia (uncountable)

1. A perennial Polynesian herb, whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot.

• AIP, API, Api, IAP, IPA

pia (plural pia-guiam)

1. father

• Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Language of the Millcayac Indians (1913) (in notes)
• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes (2004), citing Luis de Valdiva's work

pia

1. mother

• IPA^(key): /ˈpia/
• Hyphenation: pi‧a
• Rhymes: -ia

pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)

1. pious

   Antonym: malpia

From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian rumbia.

pia

1. Polynesian arrowroot
2. starch

From English beer.

pia

1. beer

Back-formation from piál.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiʲɒ]
• Hyphenation: pia

pia (plural piák)

1. (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

• piás

pia f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective pio.

• api, Api, IPA

pia

1. nominative feminine singular of pius
2. nominative neuter plural of pius
3. accusative neuter plural of pius
4. vocative feminine singular of pius
5. nominative neuter plural of pius

piā

1. ablative feminine singular of pius

• pia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

From Spanish pie.

pia

1. foot
2. leg

From Proto-Nahuan *piya, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pura. Compare Classical Nahuatl piya (“to keep, to protect”)

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈpija/
• (Tacuba) IPA^(key): /ˈpja/

-pia

1. (transitive) to have, to possess, to keep

   Ini kunet kipia miak awilti

   This kid has many toys

From Old Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“mortar”).

pia f (plural pias)

1. sink
2. basin

pia f sg

1. Feminine singular of adjective pio.

pia

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of piar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of piar

• IPA^(key): /pja/

pia

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of piar.

pia

1. also
2. all (used with -ote for emphasis)

• pya

From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka, Swedish piga and Danish pige.

pia f (definite form only)

1. little girl
2. pet name used for mare (compare syt)