ágora
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (agorā́).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]ágora f (plural ágoras)
- (Ancient Greece, historical) agora (public square in ancient Greek cities, generally quadrangular in shape, which was used mainly as a meeting place and market)
- (Ancient Greece, historical) agora (popular assembly, in ancient Greece)
Usage notes
[edit]Not to be confused with agora.
Further reading
[edit]- “ágora”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “ágora”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly, place of assembly, market”), from ἀγείρω (ageírō, “to gather”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ágora f (plural ágoras)
Usage notes
[edit]- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el ágora, un ágora
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Further reading
[edit]- “ágora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɡoɾɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɡoɾɐ/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɡuɾɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɡuɾɐ/3 syllables
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- pt:Ancient Greece
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡoɾa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡoɾa/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms with historical senses
- es:Ancient Greece