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Webster 1913 Edition


Via


Vi′a

(vī′ȧ or vē′ȧ)
,
Noun.
[L. See
Way
.]
A road or way.
Via Lactea
[L.]
(Astron.)
,
the Milky Way, or Galaxy. See
Galaxy
, 1.
Via media
[L.]
(Theol.)
,
the middle way; – a name applied to their own position by the Anglican high-churchmen, as being between the Roman Catholic Church and what they term extreme Protestantism.

Vi′a

,
p
rep.
[L., ablative of
via
way. See
Way
.]
By the way of;
as, to send a letter
via
Queenstown to London
.

Definition 2024


vía

vía

See also: via, viâ, and vi'a

Galician

Noun

vía f (plural vías)

  1. road, way, path
  2. track, rail (of a train)

Related terms

Verb

vía

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

Icelandic

Verb

vía

  1. (of flies) to lay eggs

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin via.

Noun

vía f (plural vías)

  1. way
  2. road
  3. track, railroad track
  4. method
  5. leak

Synonyms

Preposition

vía

  1. via

Usage notes

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