pia

See also: Pia, PIA, piá, pía, Pià, Pîa, pi'a, and Appendix:Variations of "pia"

English

Etymology 1

Noun

pia

1. (anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.
   • 2009, January 25, “Denis Campbell”, in Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place‎^[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

Noun

pia (uncountable)

1. A perennial Polynesian herb whose fleshy tubers yield arrowroot.

Anagrams

• AIP, API, Api, IAP, IPA

Allentiac

Noun

pia (plural pia-guiam)

1. father

References

• 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

Noun

pia

1. mother

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian pio, French pieux, English pious, all from Latin pius (“pious, devout”). Compare Spanish pío, Romanian pios.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈpia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: pi‧a

Adjective

pia (accusative singular pian, plural piaj, accusative plural piajn)

1. pious

   Antonym: malpia

Farefare

Farefare cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : pia     Ordinal : bʋpia dãana

Etymology

Cognate with Moore piiga (“ten”).

Numeral

pia

1. ten

Derived terms

• 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

• pisi (“tens”)

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *pia, from Proto-Oceanic *piʀaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *biʀaq (“wild taro”).

Noun

pia

1. Polynesian arrowroot
2. starch
3. a variety of taro
4. a variety of sweet potato

Etymology 2

From English beer.

Noun

pia

1. beer

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pia

1. stork

   Synonyms: kikonia, kekoleka

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert (1986), “pia”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from piál.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpijɒ]
• Hyphenation: pia
• Rhymes: -jɒ

Noun

pia (plural piák)

1. (slang) booze, drink, grog, liquor

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	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
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

• piás
• piázik

 

Further reading

• 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

Adjective

pia f sg

1. feminine singular of pio

Anagrams

• Api, IPA, api

Krio

Etymology

From English [alligator] pear.

Noun

pia

1. avocado

Latin

Adjective

pia

1. inflection of pius:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

piā

1. ablative feminine singular of pius

References

• 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

Etymology

From Tai. Compare Thai ผ้า (pâa) and Lü ᦕᦱᧉ (ṗhaa²).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰʲa³³]

Noun

pia 

1. (Yao'an) clothes

Mandarin

Romanization

pia

1. Nonstandard spelling of piā.

Usage notes

• 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

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pʲiɑ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pʲijæɰ/
• Bender phonemes: {piyah}

Etymology 1

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

• bwiaea
• piaea

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

1. fish roe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English beer.

Noun

pia (construct form piain)

1. beer

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish pie.

Noun

pia

1. foot
2. leg

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: pi‧a

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese pia, from Latin pīla (“mortar”).

Noun

pia f (plural pias)

1. sink (basin with a drain)
2. a sink and adjacent counter

   Deixe o prato na pia, mas não dentro.

   Leave the plate on the counter, not in the sink.

3. 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

• Hunsrik: Pia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

pia f sg

1. feminine singular of pio

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pia

1. inflection of piar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpja/ [ˈpja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pia

Verb

pia

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of piar

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Adverb

pia

1. also

   Synonym: vilevile

2. all (used with -ote for emphasis)

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.a/

Noun

pia

1. rice

Alternative forms

• pea

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics