plæce

Old English

Alternative forms

plæse, plætse, plæts

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa).

Noun

plæċe f

place, open space
street

Declension

Declension of plæce (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	plæċe	plæċan
accusative	plæċan	plæċan
genitive	plæċan	plæċena
dative	plæċan	plæċum

Descendants

Middle English: place, plaace, plache, plas, plasce, plase, plasse (conflated with Old French place)
- English: place (dialectal pleace)
  - Pijin: ples
  - Tok Pisin: ples
- Scots: place, pleece

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “plæċe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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