platea

See also: Platea

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Compare the inherited doublet piazza.

Noun

platea f (plural platee)

1. stall a seat in a theatre close to the stage (UK); orchestra seat (of a theater) (US)
2. (by extension) audience

   Synonym: pubblico

Derived terms

• plateale

Anagrams

• palate, pelata

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /plaˈteː.a/, [pɫ̪äˈt̪eːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plaˈte.a/, [pläˈt̪ɛːä]

Noun

platēa f (genitive platēae); first declension

1. street
2. courtyard

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	platēa	platēae
Genitive	platēae	platēārum
Dative	platēae	platēīs
Accusative	platēam	platēās
Ablative	platēā	platēīs
Vocative	platēa	platēae

Descendants

• Catalan: plaça
• Corsican: piazza
• Dalmatian: plaza
• Extremaduran: praça
• Friulian: place
• → Gothic: 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰 (plapja)
• Istriot: piassa
• Italian: piazza
  • → English: piazza
  • → Hungarian: piac (via a northern dialect)
  • → Romanian: piață
  • → Hungarian: piac (via a northern dialect)
• → Italian: platea
• Neapolitan: chiazza
• → Old English: plæse plætse, plæċe
  • Middle English: place (conflated with Old French place)
    • English: place
      • Pijin: ples
      • Tok Pisin: ples
• Old French: place, plache, plaise, plas
  • French: place
    • Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
      • → English: laplas
  • Norman: plache (through Old Northern French plache)
  • Walloon: plaece
  • → Irish: plás (through Anglo-Norman)
  • → Middle Dutch: plaetse
    • Dutch: plaats (see there for further descendants)
    • Limburgish: plaotsj, plaatsj
    • → West Frisian: pleats
  • → Middle High German: plaz
    • German: Platz (see there for further descendants)
    • Luxembourgish: Plaz
  • → Middle Low German: platse, platze
    • → Old Norse: plaz
      • Danish: plads
      • Faroese: pláss
      • Norwegian: plass
      • Old Swedish: platz
        • Swedish: plats
  • → Middle English: place, plaace, plache, plas, plasce, plase, plasse (conflated with Old English plæse, plætse, plæċe)
    • English: place (dialectal pleace)
      • Pijin: ples
      • Tok Pisin: ples
    • Scots: place, pleece
  • → Moroccan Arabic: بلاصة (blaṣa)
  • → Welsh: plas
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: plaça
  • Occitan: plaça
• Old Galician-Portuguese: praça, plaça (semi-learned)
  • Galician: praza
  • Portuguese: praça
    • Kabuverdianu: prása
    • → Tetum: prasa
    • Papiamentu: plasa
• → Portuguese: plateia
• Romansch: plaz, plaza, plazza
• Sicilian: chiazza
• Spanish: plaza (semi-learnedplaza, )
  • → Basque: plaza
  • → English: plaza
    • → Thai: พลาซ่า (plaa-sâa)
• → Spanish: platea

References

• “platea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “platea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• platea in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• platea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “platea”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “platea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin platēa, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Compare the doublet plaza.

Noun

platea f (plural plateas)

1. stalls (of a theatre)