hacia
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See also: hacía
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowing from Spanish hacia.
Preposition
hacia
Spanish
Etymology
According to Coromines and Pascual, from Old Spanish fazia (attested ca. 1300), with the variant faza (att. in Cid, Berceo, Calila e Dimna), and in pre-literary Latinized spelling faze ad (att. 1208, in a legal document), from Latin faciem ad (facing towards). Unlike in faz, the final -e of Latin faciem was conserved due to appearing in an established phrase, cf. Spanish pese a and its variant pesia. Cognate with Leonese faza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈaθja/ [ˈa.θja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈasja/ [ˈa.sja]
- Rhymes: -aθja
- Rhymes: -asja
- Syllabification: ha‧cia
- Homophone: (Latin America) Asia
Preposition
hacia
- toward, towards
- Сaminaremos hacia el centro de la ciudad.
- We'll walk towards the center of the city.
- El cohete se dirige hacia la luna.
- The rocket is heading towards the Moon.
- Actitudes negativas hacia personas con discapacidades
- Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities
Usage notes
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: hacia
References
- Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “hacia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 301
Further reading
- “hacia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Asturian lemmas
- Asturian prepositions
- Spanish terms inherited from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aθja
- Rhymes:Spanish/aθja/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/asja
- Rhymes:Spanish/asja/2 syllables
- Spanish terms with homophones
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish prepositions
- Spanish terms with usage examples