Noun: piatza
| Singular | piatza |
| Plural | piatzas |
Sample Sentences
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Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8:]
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Piatza = market-place, meeting-place [...] Shakspere seems to use place in this sense in The Taming of the Shrew, i. I. 'Padua, a public place ' [1874, John Milton, edited by J. W. Hales, Milton Areopagitica Edited With Introduction and Notes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Notes, page 84:]
Nouns inflected like piatza
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Likely from Italian piazza, ultimately from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa); see more at piazza. See: Italian Nouns '
piazza', Ancient Greek Nouns '
πλατεῖα'.