Disputatio:Area Agonalis

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Area Agonalis: regio? - Nescio, quod sit verbum aptum pro "piazza" (Italice) sive "square" (Anglice): area, campus? An sit "regio" maxime dubito.--Utilo (disputatio) 20:51, 7 Aprilis 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Categoriam "Fora" habemus et imposui. OK? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 08:54, 8 Aprilis 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In haec verba subtilius inquisivi: Apud antiquos "campus" plerumque aream planam sive apertam ("open country"), agrum ("field") significat; si est intra vel prope urbem, ad corpus exercendum aut ad contiones habendas uti potuit; etiam totus vel partim superaedificatus nomen retinere potuit (Campus Martius, Campus Pompei). - "Area" inter alia loca (minora vel maiora) ante templa aut domus valet (area Capitolii = area Capitolina, area Palatina, area Splenis), sed etiam forum sive locum mercandi (area pannaria). - "Forum" est area urbis media, locus mercandi ac negotiandi, templis et aedificiis publicis instructa. - Apud recentiores area et forum saepe ut synonyma adhibentur ad verbum Italicum "piazza" aut Anglicum "square" interpretandum (in litteris Vaticanis: Area Sancti Petri = Forum Sancti Petri).--Utilo (disputatio) 13:48, 8 Aprilis 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Cassell's: "regio, a quarter, ward, in Rome: Tac[itus]." ¶ area ~ 'spatium': "super planissima campi area" (Ovid). IacobusAmor (disputatio) 15:13, 8 Aprilis 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry to have to state the obvious but the best word for piazza is already used in the test, namely "platea", the latin word from which we today get plaza, piazza, and place, depending on your choice of modern language. The original meaning is "broad street" or "avenue" and this certainly describes what the piazza is here based on the pictures given, does it not?...118.169.164.212 16:31, 8 Aprilis 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe you are right, at least for a square not too much designed. St. Peter's Square - according to it:Piazza San Pietro was called "Platea Sancti Petri" till the XV. century, Piazza Navona till the XVII. century "Platea Agonalis" (cf. [1].--Utilo (disputatio) 21:19, 8 Aprilis 2013 (UTC)[reply]