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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Plautus|origins=grc πλατύς}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [pɫaˈteː.a]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [plaˈtɛː.a]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''platēa''' ''f'' (genitive platēae); first declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|grc|πλατεῖα|tr=plateîa|t=broad street]], short for ⟨πλατεῖα ὁδός⟩ “broad way”, feminine of [[m|grc|πλατύς|tr=platús|t=broad]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Catullus and Horace scan it ⟨platĕa⟩.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions have ⟨platia⟩.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Plautus, whom he dates c. 250–184 BC, and Plautus uses it of a street.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant a broad street in a city, as in Plautus, Terence and Caesar, and Horace's ''pūrae sunt plateae'' “the streets are clear”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Lampridius it meant a courtyard.^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant a street or highway.^(Stelten 1995) Medieval Latin used it for a highway, a plot of land, and a square, with spellings ''placea'' and ''plaza''.^(Niermeyer 1976) It survives in Italian ''piazza'', French ''place'' and Portuguese ''praça'', and Medieval Latin ''placea'' and Old French ''place'' gave [[en|place]] about 1200.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a street.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of a street.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1200 – English ''place'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # A broad street.^(OLD 2012)
+ # A [[m|en|courtyard]].^(Gaffiot 2016)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A highway; a plot; a [[m|en|square]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[en|place]]
+ * [[en|plaza]]
+ * [[en|piazza]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ A different ''platea'' in Pliny the Elder is a bird, perhaps the spoonbill, also called [[platalea]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}