platea

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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)

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

platēa f (genitive platēae); first declension

  1. broad way, street
  2. open space, area, 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

Noun

platea

  1. 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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaˈtea/
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: pla‧te‧a

Etymology 1

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

Noun

platea f (plural plateas)

  1. stalls (UK), orchestra (US) (of a theatre)

Etymology 2

Verb

platea

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

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