# guardia
## Italian
### Alternative forms

* (archaic, literary) guarda

### Etymology

From guardare, of Germanic origin, possibly corresponding to Frankish *warda or Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰 (wardja), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, notice, give heed”). Compare French garde, Spanish guarda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡwar.dja/
* Rhymes: -ardja
* Hyphenation: guàr‧dia

### Noun

guardia f (plural guardie)
* guard (all senses)
** c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “Schizzi d'architettura civile e militare”, in G. Fumagalli, editor, Leonardo Prosatore, scelta di scritti Vinciani, Milan: Albrighi, published 1915, →OCLC, page 254:Una sola guardia guarda, sanza muoversi, tutto il castello di dentro e di fori, la quale si de’ scambiare ogni tre ore.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* watch, guard duty, sentry duty

#### Derived terms

* cambio della guardia
* guardia del corpo
* guardia medica
* guardia svizzera
* guardiano
* montare la guardia (to have the watch)

#### Descendants

* → Afar: wardiyá
* → Ottoman Turkish: واردیا
* → Polish: gwardia
** → Belarusian: гва́рдыя (hvárdyja)
** → Ukrainian: гва́рдія (hvárdija)
* → Russian: гва́рдия (gvárdija)

### Further reading

* guardia in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* guardia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* guàrdia in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* guàrdia in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
* guardia in Treccani.it – Enciclopedia Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “guardia”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati

### Anagrams

* graduai, guardai, rugiada

## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* vardia (labio-dental orthography)
* guaddia, vaddia (eye dialect, regressive assimilation)

### Etymology

Of Germanic origin. Derived possibly from Frankish *warda, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, notice, give heed”). Compare French garde, Italian gardia, Spanish guarda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡwaɾ.dja/ (Velar variant) (the r could be regressevely assimilated or iotized)
* IPA: /ˈvaɾ.dja/ (Labio-dental variant) (the r could be regressevely assimilated)
* Hyphenation: guàr‧dia

### Noun

guardia f (plural guardi)
* guard (all senses)
* watch, guard duty, sentry duty

#### Usage notes

* This noun is used both for male or female agents.
* The masculine can be used both with lu/u or with la/a.

#### Derived terms

* guardari
* guardatu
* guardianu
* vardari
* vardatu
* vardianu

#### Descendants

* Sicilian: La Guardia, La Vardia
** English: Laguardia
** Italian: La Guardia, Laguardia

#### See also

* sincalijari
* sinnari
* taliari
* vigghianti

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰 (wardja).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡwaɾdja/ [ˈɡwaɾ.ð̞ja]
* Rhymes: -aɾdja
* Syllabification: guar‧dia

### Noun

guardia m (plural guardias)
* custodian, warden (male)
* (military) guard, guardsman
    Los guardias no me dejan pasar a ver a mi hermano.The guards are not letting me through to see my brother.

#### Hyponyms

* guardia de seguridad (“security guard”)

### Noun

guardia f (plural guardias)
* watch, guard, guarding, guard duty, sentry duty
* (military) guard (unit or squad)
* custody
* shift (in certain professions such as for medical staff)
* (martial arts) guard (ground grappling position)

#### Hyponyms

* guardia civil
* Guardia de Asalto (“Assault Guard”) (Second Spanish Republic)
* guardia de corps (“Garde du Corps”) (French military unit)
* Guardia de Hierro (“Iron Guard”) (Romanian history)
* guardia de honor (“guard of honor, honor guard”) (military, sports)
* Guardia Imperial (“Napoleon's Imperial Guard”) (French history)
* guardia nacional (“national guard”)
* Guardia Pretoriana (“Praetorian Guard”) (Ancient Roman history)
* guardia real (“royal guard”) (in general)
* Guardia Real (“Royal Guard”) (Spain)
* Guardia Suiza (“Swiss Guard”)
* Guardia Suiza Pontificia (“Pontifical Swiss Guard”)
* Guardia Valona (“Walloon guards”) (Belgian & Spanish history)
* Guardia Varega (“Varangian Guard”) (Byzantine Empire)
* vieja guardia (“old guard”)

#### Derived terms

* bajar la guardia
* cuerpo de guardia
* de guardia
* de juzgado de guardia
* en guardia
* guardia de alba
* guardia de asalto
* guardia de corps
* guardia de honor
* guardia de media
* guardia de prima
* guardia de tráfico
* hacer guardia (“to stand guard”)
* montar guardia (“to stand guard, to keep guard”)
* montar la guardia
* vara de guardia

#### Related terms

* guarda
* guardar

#### Descendants

* → Quechua: wardiya
* → Tagalog: guwardiya

### Further reading

* “guardia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10