praça

See also: praca, práca, and pracą

Extremaduran

The Plaza de España.

Etymology

From Latin platea. Cognate with Italian piazza, Venetan piaza, Sicilian chiazza, French place, Spanish plaza, and Portuguese praça.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾa.θa/

Noun

praça

1. town square

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

• zócalo

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Portuguese

Praça do Comércio, Lisbon

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, Venetan piaza, 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)

1. plaza (a public square or open area in front of a building or a place)

   Synonym: largo

   A Praça do Comércio é uma das maiores praças da Europa.

   Praça do Comércio is one of the largest plazas in Europe.

Noun

praça m (plural praças)

1. (Brazil, historical, military) Short for praça de pré.

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: prása
• → Tetum: prasa
• Papiamentu: plasa