vía

From Old Galician-Portuguese via, from Latin via.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbiɐ]

vía f (plural vías)

1. road, way, path

   Synonyms: camiño, ruta

2. track, rail (of a train)
3. windrow

   Synonym: renque

4. layer

   Synonym: capa

• Vía Láctea

vía

1. first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of ver

• “via” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “vía” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “vía” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “vía” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vía” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

vía

1. (of flies) to lay eggs

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Latin via.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbia/ [ˈbi.a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: ví‧a

vía f (plural vías)

1. way, means

   Era su única vía de escape.

   It was their only way of escape.

2. (figuratively) avenue, way, path

   Quiero considerar cada posible vía antes de tomar una decisión.

   I want to consider every possible avenue before making a decision.

3. road

   Synonym: camino

4. track, railroad track

   Mi hijo cruzó las vías por el paso para peatones, pero por la poca iluminación y el ruido que había no vio el tren.

   My son crossed the tracks at the foot crossing, but because there was little light and noise he did not see the train.

5. method
6. leak
7. (anatomy, medicine, neurology) pathway

vía

1. via

• Prepositional usage is fairly recent in Spanish. It is more conventional to use por for this purpose.

• “vía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Unknown. Compare Proto-Vietic *r-vaːjʔ (“soul; spirit”) (> Muong wãi), which is from Proto-Mon-Khmer *rwaaj (“tiger > soul; spirit”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [viə˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [viə˨˩˦]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [viə˦˥] ~ [jiə˦˥]

• Audio (Hà Nội)

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vía • (𡳺, 𩏳, 𩴅)

1. a type of soul, corresponding to the Chinese po

   Synonym: phách

   hồn vía ― souls; mind

   Gì mà hồn vía trên mây vậy?

   Is your mind wandering somewhere?

• vía; phách; linh