pia
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
pia
- (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.
- 2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer[1]:
- 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.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pia (uncountable)
Anagrams edit
Allentiac edit
Noun edit
pia (plural pia-guiam)
References edit
- 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
Comanche edit
Noun edit
pia
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From Italian pio, French pieux, English pious, all from Latin pius (“pious, devout”). Compare Spanish pío, Romanian pios.
Pronunciation edit
Audio: (file)
Adjective edit
pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)
Related terms edit
Farefare edit
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Cardinal : pia Ordinal : bʋpia dãana | ||
Etymology edit
Cognate with Moore piiga (“ten”).
Numeral edit
pia
Derived terms edit
- pia la ayɩla (“eleven”)
- pia la ayi (“twelve”)
- pia la atã (“thirteen”)
- pia la anaasɩ (“fourteen”)
- pia la anuu (“fifteen”)
- pia la ayoobɩ (“sixteen”)
- pia la ayopɔɩ (“seventeen”)
- pia la anii (“eighteen”)
- pia la awɛɩ (“nineteen”)
- pisyi (“twenty”)
- pitã (“thirty”)
- pinãasɩ (“forty”)
- pinuu (“fifty”)
- pisyoobɩ (“sixty”)
- pisyopɔɩ (“seventy”)
- pinii (“eighty”)
- piswɛɩ (“ninety”)
- tʋspia (“ten thousand”)
Related terms edit
- pisi (“tens”)
Galician edit
Verb edit
pia
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of piar:
Hawaiian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀaq (“wild taro”).
Noun edit
pia
- Polynesian arrowroot
- starch
- a variety of taro
- a variety of sweet potato
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pia
Etymology 3 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
pia
References edit
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “pia”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from piál.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pia (plural piák)
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | pia | piák |
accusative | piát | piákat |
dative | piának | piáknak |
instrumental | piával | piákkal |
causal-final | piáért | piákért |
translative | piává | piákká |
terminative | piáig | piákig |
essive-formal | piaként | piákként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | piában | piákban |
superessive | pián | piákon |
adessive | piánál | piáknál |
illative | piába | piákba |
sublative | piára | piákra |
allative | piához | piákhoz |
elative | piából | piákból |
delative | piáról | piákról |
ablative | piától | piáktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
piáé | piáké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
piáéi | piákéi |
Possessive forms of pia | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | piám | piáim |
2nd person sing. | piád | piáid |
3rd person sing. | piája | piái |
1st person plural | piánk | piáink |
2nd person plural | piátok | piáitok |
3rd person plural | piájuk | piáik |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- pia in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Italian edit
Adjective edit
pia f sg
Anagrams edit
Krio edit
Etymology edit
From English [alligator] pear.
Noun edit
pia
Latin edit
Adjective edit
pia
- inflection of pius:
Adjective edit
piā
References edit
- pia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Lolopo edit
Etymology edit
From Tai. Compare Thai ผ้า (pâa) and Lü ᦕᦱᧉ (ṗhaa²).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pia
- (Yao'an) clothes
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
pia
- Nonstandard spelling of piā.
Usage notes edit
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Marshallese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Micronesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀa, *biʀa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *piʀah, *biʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *piʀaS, *biʀaS. Cognate with Paiwan bias, Bikol Central piga, Karo Batak pira.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
pia (construct form piain)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
pia (construct form piain)
References edit
Papiamentu edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pia
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -iɐ
- Hyphenation: pi‧a
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“mortar”).[1][2]
Noun edit
pia f (plural pias)
- sink (basin with a drain)
- a sink and adjacent counter
- Deixe o prato na pia, mas não dentro.
- Leave the plate on the counter, not in the sink.
- a basin for holding water, in particular one that is furniture or part of the building rather than a movable object
- pia batismal ― baptismal font
Descendants edit
- Hunsrik: Pia
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
pia f sg
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
pia
- inflection of piar:
References edit
- ^ “pia” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “pia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pia
- second-person singular voseo imperative of piar
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adverb edit
pia
West Makian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pia
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics