ágora

See also: agora, Agora, agorá, and agorà

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡo.ɾɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡo.ɾa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡu.ɾɐ/ [ˈa.ɣu.ɾɐ]

Hyphenation: á‧go‧ra

Noun

ágora f (plural ágoras)

(Ancient Greece) agora (Ancient Greek marketplace)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly, place of assembly, market”), from ἀγείρω (ageírō, “to gather”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈaɡoɾa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞o.ɾa]
Audio (Spain): (file)
Rhymes: -aɡoɾa
Syllabification: á‧go‧ra

Noun

ágora f (plural ágoras)

(historical) agora

Usage notes

Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
el ágora, un ágora
They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Further reading

“ágora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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