Etymology of place

The word place (open space in a city, square, area, location) comes from the old French place from the late Latin placea (place, spot) from the Latin platea (courtyard, open space, broad street), which is a transliteration of the Greek plateia (open space in a city, square) from the Greek adjective plateia (broad, wide; πλατεία).
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From the same root

Eglish: flat, piazza, platform, esplanade, plain, explain, plaice, plane (-tree) and most likely placard

French: place, platee, placer, placier, placeur, de-placer,

Italian: piazza, spianata, platea, piazzista, plateare, placel

Spanish: plaza, esplanade, platea, placer

German: Platz

In modern Greek (Romeika)

a) platia: square, open space in a city [πλατεία]

b) platys (fem. platia): broad, wide [πλατύς]

c) plateno: widen, broaden [πλαταίνω]

d) platanos: plane(-tree), platanus [πλάτανος]

e) piatsa: the open area (not necessarily a square) where taxis park when they are free and waiting for customers, taxi gathering spot, public square, piazza [πιάτσα]

More: http://ewonago.blogspot.com/ [English Words of no Apparent Greek Origin]

Definitely a broad street:  Robert’s Place where I visit from time to time, home of friends.

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Old French, from Greek plateia hodos ‘broad way’.

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/place?view=uk

O.E. “open space in a city, market place, square,” from O.Fr. place, from M.L. placea “place, spot,” from L. platea “courtyard, open space, broad street,” from Gk. plateia (hodos) “broad (way),” fem. of platys “broad,” from PIE *plat- “to spread” (cf. Skt. prathati “spreads out;” Hitt. palhi “broad;” Lith. platus “broad;” Ger. Fladen “flat cake;” O.Ir. lethan “broad”); extended variant form of base *pele- (see plane (1)). Replaced O.E. stow and stede. Wide application in Eng., covering meanings that in Fr. require three words: place, lieu, and endroit. Cognate It. piazza and Sp. plaza retain more of the etymological sense. Broad sense of “material space, dimension of defined or indefinite extent” is from c.1250. Sense of “position on some social scale” is from c.1325. Meaning “group of houses in a town” is from 1585. Place-kick is from 1845, originally in rugby. Placement is first attested 1844. All over the place “in disorder” is attested from 1923.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=place

From Old English plæce (“‘open space’”), from Old French place, from Latin platea (“‘plaza, wide street’”), from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateia), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateia hodos), “‘broad way’”).

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/place?rdfrom=Place

We have many streets named ‘place’.  I like the sound.

LukeJavan8 - 05 September 2009 06:20 AM

We have many streets named ‘place’.  I like the sound.

Great little topic.   
And Nice work—thank you for sharing- for me this makes perfect sense though.
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