plaça

See also: Appendix:Variations of "placa"

Catalan

La plaça de Catalunya, a Barcelona

Etymology

Inherited from Latin platea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈpla.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpla.sa]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asa

Noun

plaça f (plural places)

1. plaza, square
2. seat, spot
3. (castells) a location where castells are presented publicly

   plaça de nou, a public location where a nine-storey castell has been successfully performed

   plaça de deu, a public location where a ten-storey castell has been successfully performed

4. (castells) a context of public performance, as opposed to during an assaig

   dur/portar a plaça, successfully perform (a particular kind of castell) in public

Further reading

• “plaça”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “plaça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “plaça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “plaça”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.sa/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Verb

plaça

1. third-person singular past historic of placer

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin platea.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Noun

plaça f (plural plaças)

1. place
2. place, square, plaza, piazza

Synonyms

• luòc

Dialectal variants

• piaça (Guardiol)

Further reading

• "plaça", in dicodòc: multidiccionari occitan (oc→fr)

Spanish

Etymology

See plaza.

Noun

plaça f (plural plaças)

1. obsolete form of plaza