praça
Extremaduran
Etymology
From Latin platea. Cognate with Italian piazza, Venetian piasa, Sicilian chiazza, French place, Spanish plaza, and Portuguese praça.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɾa.θa/
Quotations
- "Ahorrandu dela praça, s’ahila ala praça la ilesia de Santa Catalina por una calli que se enancha pa poel vél bien la costrución. Cuyamenti esta calli, ogañu llamá dela Iglesia, conselva el letreru bastanti encalau del su anteriol nombri, Queipo de Llano, unu delos golpistas causantis dela Guerra Civil." Cúyu pan esgarras? - "Ríu-Lobus "
See also
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese praça, plaça, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα (plateîa) ὁδός (hodós, “broad way”). Cognate with Italian piazza, Venetian piasa, Sicilian chiazza, French place and Spanish plaza. Doublet of plateia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɾa.sɐ/
- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: pra‧ça
Noun
praça f (plural praças)
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