Piazzaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /piˈæt.sə/,^[1] /piˈɑt.sə/^[1]
• (米国発音) (veranda): IPA^(key): /piˈæ.zə/,^[1] /piˈɑ.zə/^[1]

名詞

piazza (複数形 piazzas または piazze)

1. A public square, especially in Italian cities.
   • 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:

     Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.

2. (US dialects, especially New England, dated) A veranda; a porch.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.

3. (UK) A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square または in front of a building).

使用する際の注意点

• The plural piazze is used especially when the word refers to public squares in Italy, and plural piazzas when it refers to porches.
• In some Southern dialects, the variant form pizer is used.

参照

• Thomas Durant Visser, Porches of North America (2012, →ISBN
• “piazza”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.