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placa f (plural plaques)
- aplacar
- placa calefactora (“hot plate”)
- placa commemorativa (“commemorative plaque”)
- placa de matrícula (“licence plate”)
- placa de pit (“badge”)
- placa tectònica (“tectonic plate”)
- plaquejar
- “placa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
placa f (plural placas)
placa
- inflection of placare:
plācā
- 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)
From French plaque (“plaque, plate”), from Dutch placke, from Old Dutch *plagga (“patch”), from Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“patch”).
- Rhymes: -akɐ
- Hyphenation: pla‧ca
placa f (plural placas)
- plate (a flat metallic object)
- street sign
- (dentistry) dental plaque
- (Brazil) license plate
- (electronics) circuit board
- (seismology) tectonic plate
- (plate): chapa, lâmina
- (dental plaque): placa dentária
- (license plate): chapa (Portugal)
- (circuit board): placa de circuito
- (tectonic plate): placa tectónica
placa
- inflection of placar:
a placa (third-person singular present plachează, past participle placat) 1st conj.
- to plate
placa f (plural placas)
- plate
- shield, sign
- badge
- choppers (artificial teeth)
- Synonyms: dentadura postiza, dentadura
- (geology) plate
- (dentistry) tartar
- a game played in the Dominican Republic which is similar to cricket
- Synonym: plaquita
- (electronics) board
- placa madre ― motherboard
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
placa
- inflection of placar:
- “placa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014