piazza
See also: Piazza
English
Etymology
From Italian piazza. Doublet of piatza, place, and plaza.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /piˈæt.sə/,[1] /piˈɑt.sə/[1]
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) (veranda): IPA(key): /piˈæ.zə/,[1] /piˈɑ.zə/[1]
Noun
piazza (plural piazzas or piazze)
- A public square, especially in Italian cities.
- 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:
- Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.
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- (US dialects, especially New England, dated) A veranda; a porch.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
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- (UK) A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).
Usage notes
- The plural piazze is used especially when the word refers to public squares in Italy, and plural piazzas when it refers to porches.
- In some Southern dialects, the variant form pizer is used.
References
- Thomas Durant Visser, Porches of North America (2012, →ISBN
- “piazza”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “piazza”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
- apizza
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpjat.t͡sa/
- Rhymes: -attsa
- Hyphenation: piàz‧za
Etymology 1
From Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa). Doublet of platea. Cognate with Spanish plaza, French place, German Platz.
Noun
piazza f (plural piazze)
- square, plaza
- market
- space, post
- (Rome, figuratively) a bald area on the scalp
Synonyms
- (market): mercato
- (bald spot): chierica
Derived terms
- mettere in piazza
- piazzale
- piazzetta
Descendants
- → English: piazza
- → Romanian: piață
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
piazza
- inflection of piazzare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- pazzia