praça
Portuguese
/ˈpɾa.sɐ/
noun
Definitions
- plaza a public square or open area in front of a building or a place
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese praça derived from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (street, level, wide, flat).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πλατεῖα
Gloss
street, level, wide, flat
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
広
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- piazza English
- plaza English
- *plattea Latin
- platea Latin
- platēa Latin
- Platz German
- pláza Hungarian
- piazza Italian
- piazzaiolo Italian
- piazzeggiare Italian
- piazzetta Italian
- piazzista Italian
- platea Italian
- spiazzare Italian
- biplace French
- monoplace French
- place French
- placer French
- triplace French
- desplazar Spanish, Castilian
- emplazar Spanish, Castilian
- placear Spanish, Castilian
- placeta Spanish, Castilian
- plasa Spanish, Castilian
- platea Spanish, Castilian
- plaza Spanish, Castilian
- plazuela Spanish, Castilian
- πλατεῖα Ancient Greek
- *plat- Proto-Indo-European
- *pleh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- プラザ Japanese
- plac Polish
- بَلاطة Arabic
- place Old French
- praza Galician
- piață Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- πλατεία Greek (modern)
- qaca Albanian
- praça Old Portuguese
- chiazza Sicilian
- piad Volapük
- plaza Basque
- פְּלַטְיָא Aramaic
- بلاصة Moroccan Arabic
- ܦܠܛܝܐ Classical Syriac
- plösa Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- plòso’óna Taos
- praça Extremaduran