cria

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

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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