ágora

See also: agora, Agora, agorá, and agorà

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (agorā́).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡo.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡo.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡo.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡu.ɾɐ/ [ˈa.ɣu.ɾɐ]

• Rhymes: -aɡoɾɐ, -aɡuɾɐ
• Hyphenation: á‧go‧ra

Noun

ágora f (plural ágoras)

1. (Ancient Greece, historical) agora (public square in ancient Greek cities, generally quadrangular in shape, which was used mainly as a meeting place and market)
2. (Ancient Greece, historical) agora (popular assembly, in ancient Greece)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with agora.

Further reading

• “ágora”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “ágora”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly, place of assembly, market”), from ἀγείρω (ageírō, “to gather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡoɾa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞o.ɾa]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aɡoɾa
• Syllabification: á‧go‧ra

Noun

ágora f (plural ágoras)

1. (historical) agora

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el ágora, un ágora

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Further reading

• “ágora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014