Plaza
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late 17th century: from Spanish, literally ‘place’.
wiktionary
From Spanish plaza(“town-square or central place of gathering”), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα(plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός(plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and place.
etymonline
plaza (n.)
"public square or open space surrounded by houses," originally in a Spanish or Spanish-American town or city, 1830, from Spanish plaza "square, place," from Vulgar Latin *plattia, from Latin platea "courtyard, broad street" (from PIE root *plat- "to spread").
