ágora

See also: agora, Agora, agorá, and agorà

Portuguese

Noun

ágora f (plural s)

1. agora (Ancient Greek marketplace)

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡoɾa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞o.ɾa]

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

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