ágora

See also: agora, Agora, agorá, and agorà

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γορᾱ́ (agorā́).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡo.ɾɐ/

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

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

• Rhymes: -aɡoɾɐ, -aɡuɾɐ
• Hyphenation: á‧go‧ra

Noun

ágora f (plural ágoras)

1. (Ancient Greece, historical) agora (public square in ancient Greek cities, generally quadrangular in shape, which was used mainly as a meeting place and market)
2. (Ancient Greece, historical) agora (popular assembly, in ancient Greece)

Usage notes

Not to be confused with agora.

Further reading

• “ágora”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “ágora”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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)

1. (historical) agora

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like ágora take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el ágora. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al ágora, del ágora.

These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un ágora or una ágora. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor ágora, una buena ágora.

• If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el ágora única, un(a) ágora buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

Further reading

• “ágora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10