plaça

See also: Appendix:Variations of "placa"

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin platea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpla.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpla.sa]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asa

Noun

plaça f (plural places)

1. plaza, square
2. seat, spot
3. (castells) a location where castells are presented publicly

   plaça de nou, a public location where a nine-storey castell has been successfully performed

   plaça de deu, a public location where a ten-storey castell has been successfully performed

4. (castells) a context of public performance, as opposed to during an assaig

   dur a plaça, successfully perform (a particular kind of castell) in public

Further reading

• “plaça”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “plaça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “plaça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plaça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.sa/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Verb

plaça

1. third-person singular past historic of placer

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin platea.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

plaça f (plural plaças)

1. place
2. place, square, plaza, piazza

Synonyms

• luòc

Dialectal variants

• piaça (Guardiol)