praça

Meaning

plaza (a public square or open area in front of a building or a place)

Hyphenated as

pra‧ça

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɾa.sɐ/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese praça, plaça, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα (plateîa) ὁδός (hodós, “broad way”). Cognate with Italian piazza, Venetian piasa, Sicilian chiazza, French place and Spanish plaza. Doublet of plateia.

Sentences

Dez louros me deixaram na praça e ainda preciso da coisa mais importante .

Ten laurels left me in the square and I still need the most important thing.