placa

See also: plaća, placă, plaça, płaca, płacą, and плача

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French plaque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpla.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpla.ka]

Noun

placa f (plural plaques)

1. plate
2. (biology) plaque

Derived terms

• aplacar
• placa calefactora (“hot plate”)
• placa commemorativa (“commemorative plaque”)
• placa de matrícula (“licence plate”)
• placa de pit (“badge”)
• placa tectònica (“tectonic plate”)
• plaquejar

Further reading

• “placa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician

Noun

placa f (plural placas)

1. plate
2. sign
3. tectonic plate

Italian

Verb

placa

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

Latin

Verb

plācā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of plācō

References

• placa 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)

Portuguese

placa (street sign)

Etymology 1

From French plaque (“plaque, plate”), from Dutch placke, from Old Dutch *plagga (“patch”), from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“patch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: pla‧ca

Noun

placa f (plural placas)

1. plate (a flat metallic object)
2. street sign
3. (dentistry) dental plaque
4. (Brazil) license plate
5. (electronics) circuit board
6. (seismology) tectonic plate

Synonyms

• (plate): chapa, lâmina
• (dental plaque): placa dentária
• (license plate): chapa (Portugal)
• (circuit board): placa de circuito
• (tectonic plate): placa tectónica

Derived terms

• antiplaca
• gol de placa
• placa crivada
• placa de circuito impresso
• placa de expansão
• placa de memória
• placa óssea
• placa-mãe

 

Related terms

• emplacado
• emplacamento
• emplacar

Etymology 2

Verb

placa

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French plaquer.

Verb

a placa (third-person singular present plachează, past participle placat) 1st conj.

1. to plate

Conjugation

    conjugation of placa (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a placa
gerund			placând
past participle			placat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	plachez	plachezi	plachează	placăm	placați	plachează
	imperfect	placam	placai	placa	placam	placați	placau
	simple perfect	placai	placași	placă	placarăm	placarăți	placară
	pluperfect	placasem	placaseși	placase	placaserăm	placaserăți	placaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să plachez	să plachezi	să placheze	să placăm	să placați	să placheze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		plachează			placați
	negative		nu placa			nu placați

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaka/ [ˈpla.ka]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: pla‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French plaque.

Noun

placa f (plural placas)

1. plate
2. shield, sign
3. badge
4. choppers (artificial teeth)

   Synonyms: dentadura postiza, dentadura

5. (geology) plate
6. (dentistry) tartar
7. a game played in the Dominican Republic which is similar to cricket

   Synonym: plaquita

8. (electronics) board

   placa madre ― motherboard

Derived terms

• placa base
• placa de cocción
• placa de Petri
• placa dentobacteriana
• placa madre
• placa tectónica
• tectónica de placas

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

placa

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

Further reading

• “placa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28