# pía
## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpia/ [ˈpi.ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: pí‧a

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

pía f (plural pías)
* sink
* basin
** 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: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 casaAnd, 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
* baptismal font
    Synonym: pía bautismal
* trough
    Synonyms: barcal, dorna
* hole on a surface
    Synonyms: buraco, foca

##### Derived terms

* Pía
* pía bautismal
* Piela
* Pío
* Píos

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“pillar”). Cognate with Portuguese pilha and Spanish pila.

#### Noun

pía f (plural pías)
* (archaic) column
    Synonym: columna

##### Derived terms

* Peares
* piar

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

pía
* inflection of piar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “pia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pia”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pía”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pía”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pía”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Danish pige.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpʰiːja/
    Rhymes: -iːja

### Noun

pía f (genitive singular píu, nominative plural píur)
* (dated) maidservant
* (informal) babe, chick (attractive woman)

#### Derived terms

* barnapía

### Further reading

* “pía” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Leonese
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpia/, [ˈpi.a]
* Hyphenation: pí‧a

### Noun

pía f (plural pías)
* foot

### References

* AEDLL

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpia/ [ˈpi.a]
* Rhymes: -ia
* Syllabification: pí‧a

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

pía f (plural pías)
* (Honduras) piha (bird)

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

pía
* feminine singular of pío

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

pía
* inflection of piar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “pía”, 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