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placă

plate (flat rigid sheet, plaque, or record) /ˈpla.kə/

noun#1007 most common

Also: record (vinyl disc), board/panel (as in motherboard, graphics card), plaque (memorial)

Example sentences

Pe perete este o placă cu numele străzii.
On the wall there is a plaque with the street's name.
Bunicul meu ascultă o placă veche cu muzică populară.
My grandfather listens to an old record with folk music.
Calculatorul are nevoie de o placă video mai puternică.
The computer needs a more powerful graphics card.
Pe fațada clădirii a fost montată o placă comemorativă.
A memorial plaque was mounted on the building's facade.
Tehnicianul a înlocuit placa de bază defectă a laptopului.
The technician replaced the laptop's faulty motherboard.
Orașul a devenit o placă turnantă pentru comerțul din regiune.
The city became a hub for trade in the region.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeplacăplăci
Genitiveplăciplăcilor
Accusativeplacăplăci
Vocativeplacăplăci

Word family

plăcuțăsmall plate, nameplate, tag
placajplywood, veneer
a placato veneer, to plate, to coat with a flat layer
placarethe act of veneering or plating

Etymology

Placă entered Romanian through French plaque, which meant a flat rigid piece of metal or other material. The French word traces back to a Germanic source, a Middle Dutch term for a flat patch or disc. Romanian kept the core sense of a rigid flat object and later extended it to records, plaques, and computer boards.

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