piazza的词源

英文词源

piazza

piazza: see place

piazza (n.)

1580s, "public square in an Italian town," from Italian piazza, from Latin platea "courtyard, broad street," from Greek plateia (hodos) "broad (street);" see place (n.). According to OED, mistakenly applied in English 1640s to the colonnade of Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones, rather than to the marketplace itself; hence "the verandah of a house" (1724, chiefly American English).

中文词源

piazza：意大利城镇中的广场

来自意大利语piazza,广场，来自拉丁语platea,宽阔的街道，平面，词源同plate,plan.

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：piazza 词源，piazza 含义。