platea

See also: Platea

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)

stall a seat in a theatre close to the stage (UK); orchestra seat (of a theater) (US)
(by extension) audience
Synonym: pubblico

Derived terms

plateale

Anagrams

palate, pelata

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /plaˈteː.a/, [pɫ̪äˈt̪eːä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plaˈte.a/, [pläˈt̪ɛːä]

Noun

platēa f (genitive platēae); first declension

street
courtyard

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	platēa	platēae
Genitive	platēae	platēārum
Dative	platēae	platēīs
Accusative	platēam	platēās
Ablative	platēā	platēīs
Vocative	platēa	platēae

Descendants

Catalan: plaça
Corsican: piazza
Dalmatian: plaza
Extremaduran: praça
Friulian: place
→ Gothic: 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰 (plapja)
Istriot: piassa
Italian: piazza
- → English: piazza
- → Romanian: piață
- → Hungarian: piac (via a northern dialect)
→ Italian: platea
Ligurian: ciassa
Neapolitan: chiazza
→ Old English: plæse plætse, plæċe
- Middle English: place (conflated with Old French place)
  - English: place
    - Pijin: ples
    - Tok Pisin: ples
Old French: place, plache, plaise, plas
- French: place
  - Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
    - → English: laplas
- → Irish: plás (through Anglo-Norman)
- → Middle Dutch: plaetse
  - Dutch: plaats
  - Limburgish: plaotsj, plaatsj
- → Middle High German: blaz, plaz
  - German: Platz
    - → Czech: plac
    - → Estonian: plats
    - → Macedonian: плац (plac)
    - → Polish: plac
      - → Russian: плац (plac)
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      - Cyrillic: плац
      - Latin: plac
  - Luxembourgish: Plaz
- → Middle Low German: platse, platze
  - → Old Norse: plaz
    - Danish: plads
    - Faroese: pláss
    - Norwegian: plass
    - Old Swedish: platz
      - Swedish: plats
    - Westrobothnian: plass
- → Middle English: place, plaace, plache, plas, plasce, plase, plasse (conflated with Old English plæse, plætse, plæċe)
  - English: place (dialectal pleace)
    - Pijin: ples
    - Tok Pisin: ples
  - Scots: place, pleece
- → Moroccan Arabic: بلاصة‎ (blaṣa)
- Norman: plache (through Old Northern French plache)
- Walloon: plaece
- → Welsh: plas
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: plaça
- Occitan: plaça
Old Portuguese: praça, plaça (semi-learned)
- Galician: praza
- Portuguese: praça
  - Kabuverdianu: prása
  - → Tetum: prasa
  - Papiamentu: plasa
→ Portuguese: plateia
Romansch: plaz, plaza, plazza
Sicilian: chiazza
Spanish: plaza (semi-learned)
- → Basque: plaza
- → English: plaza
  - → Thai: พลาซ่า (plaa-sâa)
→ Spanish: platea

Noun

platea

Alternative of platalea, the (spoonbill)

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

platea f (plural plateas)

stalls (of a theatre)

Verb

platea

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

platea

Italian

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Descendants

Noun

References

Spanish

Etymology

Noun

Verb

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