platea

See also: Platea

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Compare the inherited doublet piazza.

Noun

platea f (plural platee)

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

Derived terms

plateale

Anagrams

palate, pelata

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /plaˈteː.a/, [pɫaˈteː.a]

Noun

platēa f (genitive platēae); first declension

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	platēa	platēae
Genitive	platēae	platēārum
Dative	platēae	platēīs
Accusative	platēam	platēās
Ablative	platēā	platēīs
Vocative	platēa	platēae

Descendants

Corsican: piazza
Dalmatian: plaza
Extremaduran: praça
Friulian: place
→ Gothic: 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰 (plapja)
Istriot: piassa
Italian: piazza
- → English: piazza
- → Romanian: piață
- → Hungarian: piac (via a northern dialect)
→ Italian: platea
→ Middle High German: blaz, plaz
- → German: Platz (partially from French place)
  - → Czech: plac
  - → Estonian: plats
  - → Macedonian: плац (plac)
  - → Polish: plac
    - → Russian: плац (plac)
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    - Cyrillic: плац
    - Latin: plac
→ Middle Low German: platse, platze
- → Old Norse: plaz
  - Danish: plads
  - Faroese: pláss
  - Norwegian: plass
  - Old Swedish: platz
    - Swedish: plats
  - Westrobothnian: plass
Neapolitan: chiazza
→ Old English: plæse plætse, plæċe
- Middle English: place (conflated with Old French place)
  - English: place
    - Pijin: ples
    - Tok Pisin: ples
Old French: place, plache, plaise, plas
- French: place
  - Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
    - → English: laplas
- → Irish: plás (through Anglo-Norman)
- → Luxembourgish: Plaz
- → Middle Dutch: plaetse
  - Dutch: plaats
  - Limburgish: plaotsj, plaatsj
- → Middle English: place (conflated with Old English plæse, plætse, plæċe)
  - English: place
    - Pijin: ples
    - Tok Pisin: ples
- → Moroccan Arabic: بلاصة‎ (blaṣa)
- Norman: plache (through Old Northern French plache)
- Walloon: plaece
Old Occitan:
- Catalan: plaça
- Occitan: plaça
Old Portuguese: praça, plaça (semi-learned)
- Galician: praza
- Portuguese: praça
  - Kabuverdianu: prása
  - → Tetum: prasa
  - Papiamentu: plasa
→ Portuguese: plateia
Romansch: plaz, plaza, plazza
Sicilian: chiazza
Spanish: plaza (semi-learned)
- → Basque: plaza
- → English: plaza
  - → Thai: พลาซ่า (plaa-sâa)
→ Spanish: platea

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, 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin platēa, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa, “street”). Compare the doublet plaza.

Noun

platea f (plural plateas)

stalls (of a theatre)

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