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).

piedra f (plural piedres)

1. stone

• pedreru
• pedrosu

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. 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 […]

   • Idem, 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

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

• “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