piedra

Borrowed from Spanish piedra (“stone”). Doublet of petra.

piedra (uncountable)

1. A hair disease caused by a fungus.

• black piedra
• chanca piedra
• white piedra

• trichosporosis

• aperid, diaper, paired, pardie, repaid

Inherited from Latin petra.

piedra f (plural piedras)

1. stone

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “piedra”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Latin petra (“stone”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjedɾa/ [ˈpje.ð̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -edɾa
• Syllabification: pie‧dra

piedra f (plural piedres)

1. stone
2. hail

   Synonyms: xarazu, granizu, pedrisca, xaraza, pedraz

3. fruit pit
4. millstone

   Synonyms: molar, muela

• a piedra fresco
• piedra de fueu
• piedra de granu
• piedra de la culiebra
• piedra de molín
• piedra de les aguyes
• piedra de xil
• piedra afilar
• piedra imán
• piedra'l lleche
• piedra mollar
• piedra'l rayu
• piedra preciosa
• piedra salitrada
• escachapiedras
• piedrazu
• piedriquina
• piedrona
• pedrecona

• picapedreru
• pedreru
• pedrosu
• pedresu
• pedregal
• pedregosu
• pedréu
• pedriz
• pedregalosu
• pedregueru
• pedregués
• pedrera
• pedrada
• apedriar
• empedrar
• desempedrar
• espedrar
• espedregar
• pedracal
• pedral

• “piedra”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “piedra”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Borrowed from Spanish piedra (“stone”), from Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra). Doublet of pietra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjɛ.dra/
• Rhymes: -ɛdra
• Hyphenation: piè‧dra

piedra f (uncountable)

1. (pathology) piedra (hair disease)

• piedra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Paride, derapi, padire, paride, piarde, predai, rapide

From Latin petra (“stone”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

piedra f (plural piedras)

1. stone

From Latin petram, accusative of petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjedɾa/

piedra f (plural piedras)

1. A piece of stone; a rock or pebble.
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 6v:

     Et por ende a tal p̃priedat eſta piedra q̃ el q̃ la trae obedecẽ le los leones […]

     And such is the property of this stone that lions will obey he who bears it […]

   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 11v:

     […] alli do el ryo naſce ay unas muy grandes & otras pequẽnas como de otras piedras non pueden traer estos aguaduchos ſi non las menores.

     […] there at the source of the river are both very large and small stones, like others, but these currents cannot carry but the smaller ones.

• pidrizuela f

• pedrada
• pedrenna
• Pedro

• Spanish: piedra (see there for further descendants)

From Spanish piedra and Portuguese pedra and Kabuverdianu pédra.

piedra

1. stone
2. rock

Inherited from Old Spanish piedra, from Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpjedɾa/ [ˈpje.ð̞ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -edɾa
• Syllabification: pie‧dra

piedra f (plural piedras)

1. stone (hard earthen substance that can form large rocks)

   Synonyms: peña, roca

2. flint (small cylinder used to produce a spark in a lighter, etc.)
3. hailstone (single ball of hail, or solid precipitation)
4. crack (potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine)

   Synonyms: coca, cocaína, farlopa, harina, mandanga, perico

5. pumice

   Synonym: pumita

• → English: piedra
• → Italian: piedra

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