Noun: aia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: à‧ia
| Singular f | aia |
| Plural f | aie |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: cortile
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stendere il grano sull'aia (to spread the grain on the threshing floor)
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Uscimmo anzi da quella porta e ci trovammo sull'aia, nell'estremità orientale del pianoro, a ridosso delle mura, dove sorgevano molte costruzioni. (We got out from that door and found ourselves on the barnyard, at the eastern end of the tableland, near the walls, where stood many buildings.) [1980, Umberto Eco, “Primo giorno – Verso nona”, in Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose] (I grandi tascabili), Milan: Bompiani, published 1984, page 77:]
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aia cardiaca (cardiac area)
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aia epatica (hepatic area)
Nouns inflected like aia
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ārea. Doublet of Italian area (“area”). See: Latin Nouns '
ārea', Latin Nouns '
ārea'.
Verbs referencing "aia"
Galician Nouns
eira, Portuguese Nouns
eira.
Translations