plæce

Old English

Alternative forms

• plæse, plætse, plæts

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa).

Noun

plæċe f

1. place, open space
2. street

Declension

Declension of plæce (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	plæċe	plæċan
accusative	plæċan	plæċan
genitive	plæċan	plæċena
dative	plæċan	plæċum

Descendants

• Middle English: place, plaace, plache, plas, plasce, plase, plasse (conflated with Old French place)
  • English: place (dialectal pleace)
    • Pijin: ples
    • Tok Pisin: ples
  • Scots: place, pleece

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “plæċe”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.