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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pla.têː.a/ → /plaˈti.a/ → /plaˈti.a/
Adjective
πλᾰτεῖᾰ • (plateîa)
- feminine nominative/vocative singular of πλατύς (platús)
Noun
πλᾰτεῖᾰ • (plateîa) f (genitive πλᾰτείᾱς); first declension
- street
- square (open space in a town)
Declension
Descendants
- → Latin: platēa (see there for further descendants)
References
- “πλατεῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλατεῖα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πλατεῖα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4113 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- πλατεῖα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plaˈti.a/
- Hyphenation: πλα‧τεῖ‧α
Adjective
πλατεῖα • (plateîa)
- (Katharevousa) polytonic spelling: Nominative and vocative feminine singular form of πλατύς (platýs): wide
Noun
πλατεῖα • (plateîa) f
- (Katharevousa) Polytonic spelling of πλατεία