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piatza

piatza noun: marketplace, meeting place.

Noun (1)

piatza (plural piatzas)

  1. Marketplace, meeting place.
    • Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8
    • Piatza = market-place, meeting-place [...] Shakspere seems to use place in this sense in The Taming of the Shrew, i. I. 'Padua, a public place '1874, John Milton, edited by J. W. Hales, Milton Areopagitica Edited With Introduction and Notes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Notes, page 84

Noun (2)

piatza (plural piatzas)

  1. A shaman among the indigenous peoples of Guyana.
    • The Indian tribes in Guiana have mystery-men, called Piatzas, or Piaies, who constitute a powerful priesthood.1876, Carl Engel, “Music and Medicine”, in Musical Myths and Facts, volume II, London: Novello, Ewer & Co., […], pages 89–90

Forms of piatza

pluralpiatzas

Origin of piatza

Likely from Italian piazza, ultimately from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa); see more at piazza. Doublet of piazza, place, platz, and plaza

From a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *pɨjati; compare Trió pïjai, Akurio piyahi, Carijona hiyači (“shaman”) (from Proto-Taranoan *pɨjaci, from the Proto-Cariban term).

Questions about piatza

What does piatza mean?
Piatza means marketplace, meeting place.
What part of speech is piatza?
Piatza is a noun.
What is the plural of piatza?
The plural of piatza is piatzas.

Words near piatza in the dictionary

  1. Piatro
  2. Piatt
  3. Piatt County
  4. Piatts
  5. Piatykhatky
  6. piatza
  7. piatzas
  8. Piauí
  9. Piaye
  10. piazza
  11. piazzaed

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