piaggia
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Medieval Latin plagia, from Latin plaga, whence also French plage, Spanish playa, Romanian plai.
Noun edit
piaggia f (plural piagge) (archaic)
- stretch of sloping terrain, slope
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 28–30; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- stretch of flat terrain interrupting a slope
- Alternative form of spiaggia
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
piaggia
- inflection of piaggiare:
Further reading edit
- piaggia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana