plaza
Basque (Bidasoa Valley)
noun
Definitions
- plaza, town square, public place
- market place
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish, Castilian plaza (town-square central place of gathering) derived from Latin platea (wide street, plaza) derived from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (street, level, wide, flat).
Origin
Ancient Greek
πλατεῖα
Gloss
street, level, wide, flat
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
広
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- plaza English
- *plattea Latin
- platea Latin
- platēa Latin
- Platz German
- pláza Hungarian
- piazza Italian
- platea Italian
- place French
- desplazar Spanish, Castilian
- emplazar Spanish, Castilian
- placear Spanish, Castilian
- placeta Spanish, Castilian
- platea Spanish, Castilian
- plaza Spanish, Castilian
- plazuela Spanish, Castilian
- πλατεῖα Ancient Greek
- *plat- Proto-Indo-European
- *pleh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- プラザ Japanese
- plæce Old English
- بَلاطة Arabic
- place Old French
- plaça Catalan, Valencian
- πλατεία Greek (modern)
- 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰 Gothic
- praça Old Portuguese
- platse Middle Low German
- plātze Middle Low German
- plaça Occitan
- place xno
- פְּלַטְיָא Aramaic
- plaza Dalmatian
- plaece Walloon
- ܦܠܛܝܐ Classical Syriac
- chiazza Neapolitan
- plösa Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- plòso’óna Taos
- praça Extremaduran