vía
/ˈbia/ · B1 · prep
road
🛣️ Latin via, road: English via, viaduct and trivia (three roads) share it
In Spanish, v sounds like b, so vía is said BEE-ah. The Vía Láctea is the Milky Way (literally the milk road), and vía also means a railway track or a route, as in vía aérea, by air.