plazo

Inherited from Old Spanish plazo, plazdo, from Latin placitus [diēs] (“agreed day”), perfect passive participle of placeō (“to be pleasing”). Compare Portuguese prazo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaθo/ [ˈpla.θo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈplaso/ [ˈpla.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aθo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -aso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: pla‧zo

plazo m (plural plazos)

1. period, term (time limit), deadline, phase
2. installment, payment

• Ralph Penny (2002) A History of the Spanish Language, Cambridge University Press, page 89

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