cria

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Borrowed from Spanish cría ("kid; pup; cria").

cria (plural crias )

1. A young South American camelid (llama, vicuna, guanaco or alpaca).

• ACIR , AICR , Acri , CAIR , CIRA , Cira , Crai , arci , cair

From criar ("to raise").

• IPA ^(key): (Northern , Balearic , Central ) [ˈkɾi.ə]
• IPA ^(key): (Valencia , Northwestern ) [ˈkɾi.a]

cria f (plural cries )

1. upbringing, raising
2. offspring
3. young (baby animal)

• esgarriacries

• "cria", in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• "cria", in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• "cria" in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), "cria", in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

cria

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

• IPA ^(key): /kʁi.ja/
• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)): (file)

cria

1. third-person singular past historic of crier

• cari , cira

cria

1. (reintegrationist norm) first /third-person singular imperfect indicative of crer
2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of criar :
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Likely a borrowing from Sardinian cria ("brooding; parturition; childbirth"), deverbal from Logudorese criare and Campidanese criai ("to lay eggs; to give birth").

• IPA ^(key): /ˈkria/^[1]

cria f (plural crii )

1. (collective ) clutch, sitting (of eggs)
2. (collective ) litter (animals born in one birth)

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006), Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• IPA ^(key): /ˈkjɾji.a/

·crïa

1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of crenaid

• Rhymes: -iɐ
• Hyphenation: cri‧a

From criar ("to rear; to raise").

cria f (plural crias )

1. young; offspring (a young animal, especially one that still depends on its mother)
2. (familiar ) kid; young'un (a person’s son or daughter)
3. someone who is raised by a family but is not their biological child; a ward or an adoptee
4. (agriculture ) livestock (farm animals being raised)

   Synonym: criação

5. (slang , endearing , Brazil ) homeboy; homie; a person from the hood or the ghetto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cria

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cria

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

• "cria", in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• "cria", in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Deverbal, from Logudorese criare and Campidanese criai ("to lay an egg; to give birth").

• IPA ^(key): /ˈkria/

cria f (plural crias )

1. (Logudorese , Nuorese , Campidanese ) brooding, incubating
2. (Logudorese , transferred sense ) parturition, labour (of animals, especially sheep)
3. (Logudorese , transferred sense , humorous or derogatory ) childbirth
   1. (with an adjective) family, lineage, descent

      de mala cria ― bad-blooded, of bad blood (literally, "[coming] from a bad family")

• →? Gallurese: cria
• →? Sassarese: crea

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006), Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• (Sedini) IPA ^(key): /ˈkria/^[1]

cria f (plural crii )

1. (dialectal ) alternative form of crea ("clutch (of eggs); litter ")

• IPA ^(key): /ˈkɾja/ [ˈkɾja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: cria

cria

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of criar

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