piatza

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 reverences
  2. 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.

词形变化

piatzas plural piatzas plural

词源

词源 1
Likely from Italian piazza, ultimately from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa); see more at piazza.
词源 2
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).
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