Noun: pía
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pía |
| Plural f | pías |
Sample Sentences
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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) [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:]
Nouns inflected like pía
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese pia (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pīla (“mortar”). Cognate with Portuguese pia and Spanish pila. See: Latin Nouns '
pīla', Portuguese Nouns '
pia', Spanish Nouns '
pila'.
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