Noun: piña
Gender: f
Hyphenation: pi‧ña
| Singular f | piña |
| Plural f | piñas |
Sample Sentences
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[…] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña [2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE (television production), Pablo Iglesias Turrión (actor):]
Nouns inflected like piña
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *poi-?
3. Proto-Italic *pīnos
4. Latin pīnus
5. Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
6. Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
7. Proto-Italic *-ejos
8. Proto-Italic *-eos
9. Latin -eus
10. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
12. Proto-Italic *-ā
13. Latin -a
14. Latin -ea
15. Latin pīnea
16. Spanish piña
17. Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting. See: Latin Nouns '
pīnea', Latin Nouns '
pīnea'.
Verbs referencing "piña"
English Nouns
pineapple.
Translations