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Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, street). Doublet of piazza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaˈtɛ.a/
  • Rhymes: -ɛa
  • Hyphenation: pla‧tè‧a

Noun

platea f (plural platee)

  1. stall/orchestra seat (a seat in a theatre/theater close to the stage)
  2. (by extension) audience
    Synonym: pubblico

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, broad way).

Pronunciation

Noun

platēa f (genitive platēae); first declension

  1. broad way, street
  2. open space, area, courtyard

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Noun

platea

  1. 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

  • IPA(key): /plaˈtea/ [plaˈt̪e.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: pla‧te‧a

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, street). Doublet of plaza.

Noun

platea f (plural plateas)

  1. stalls/orchestra seats (of a theatre)

Etymology 2

Verb

platea

  1. inflection of platear:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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