placa

plate

noun PLAH-kah Less Common

Origin: From French plaque (flat piece), of Germanic origin.

Also means

plaque

Usage Note

Placa covers a wide semantic range: a commemorative plaque (placa conmemorativa), a licence plate (placa de matrícula in Spain; placa alone in Latin America for the vehicle plate), a dental plaque (placa dental), and a circuit board (placa base, motherboard). Context nearly always disambiguates. Feminine noun; plural placas.

Examples

"La placa en la pared recuerda al poeta."

Natural Translation

The plaque on the wall commemorates the poet.

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