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See also: Platea
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Doublet of piazza.
Pronunciation
Noun
platea f (plural platee)
- stall/orchestra seat (a seat in a theatre/theater close to the stage)
- (by extension) audience
- Synonym: pubblico
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɫaˈteː.a]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [plaˈt̪ɛː.a]
Noun
platēa f (genitive platēae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Corsican: piazza
- Dalmatian: plaza
- Extremaduran: praça
- Franco-Provençal: place
- Friulian: place
- Istriot: piassa
- Italian: piazza (see there for further descendants)
- Ligurian: ciassa
- Neapolitan: chiazza
- Old French: place (see there for further descendants)
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: praça, plaça (semi-learned)
- Romansch: plaz, plaza, plazza
- Sicilian: chiazza
- Spanish: plaza (semi-learned) (see there for further descendants)
- Borrowings:
Noun
platea
- alternative form of platalea
References
- “platea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “platea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "platea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “platea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “platea”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia
- “platea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Doublet of plaza.
Noun
platea f (plural plateas)
Etymology 2
Verb
platea
- inflection of platear:
Further reading
- “platea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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