relíquia

See also: reliquia

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin reliquia.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

relíquia f (plural relíquies)

1. relic

Related terms

• reliquiari

Further reading

• “relíquia”, 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
• “relíquia”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “relíquia” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “relíquia”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin reliquiae (“remains, relics”), from relinquō (“to leave behind, to abandon, to relinquish”), from re- + linquō (“to leave, to quit, to forsake, to depart from”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈli.kjɐ/ [heˈli.kjɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈli.kjɐ/ [heˈli.kjɐ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈli.kjɐ/ [χeˈli.kjɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈli.kjɐ/

• Rhymes: -ikiɐ, -ikjɐ
• Hyphenation: re‧lí‧qui‧a

Noun

relíquia f (plural relíquias)

1. (religion) relic (part of the body of a saint or any object that belonged to a saint or was part of his or her torture)
2. (figuratively) heirloom (precious, rare or ancient thing)
3. (figuratively) heirloom (what remains of something that ceased to exist)

Related terms

• relicário

Further reading

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