praça
Extremaduran edit
Etymology edit
From Latin platea. Cognate with Italian piazza, Venetian piasa, Sicilian chiazza, French place, Spanish plaza, and Portuguese praça.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
praça
Quotations edit
- "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 "
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
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, Venetian piasa, Sicilian chiazza, French place and Spanish plaza. Doublet of plateia.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: pra‧ça
Noun edit
praça f (plural praças)
- 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 edit
praça m (plural praças)
- (Brazil, historical, military) Ellipsis of praça de pré.