Noun: praça
Gender: f
m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | praça |
| Singular f | praça |
| Plural m | praças |
| Plural f | praças |
Sample Sentences
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A Praça do Comércio é uma das maiores praças da Europa. (Praça do Comércio is one of the largest plazas in Europe.)
Nouns inflected like praça
semita,
sensei,
selfie,
neurologista,
violinista,
gremista,
sapeca,
militante,
sacana,
antitradicionalista,
sovina,
somali,
activista,
belmontense,
flautista,
humanista,
antiaristocrata,
felgueirense,
adjuvante,
antissemita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-us
4. Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us
5. Proto-Hellenic *plətús
6. Ancient Greek πλᾰτῠ́ς (plătŭ́s)
7. Ancient Greek πλᾰτεῖᾰ (plăteîă)bor.
8. Latin platēaslbor.
9. Old Galician-Portuguese praça
10. Portuguese praça
11. From Old Galician-Portuguese praça, plaça, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Cognate with Galician, Fala, and Spanish praza, Extremaduran praça, French place, Italian piazza, Venetan piasa, and Sicilian chiazza. Doublet of plateia. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
πλατεῖα', French Nouns '
place', Italian Nouns '
piazza'.
Verbs referencing "praça"
Spanish Nouns
plaza, Italian Nouns
piazza, Galician Nouns
praza.
Translations