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plat lpat palt aplt lapt alpt plta lpta ptla tpla ltpa tlpa patl aptl ptal tpal atpl tapl latp altp ltap tlap atlp talp

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Definitions and meaning of plat

plat

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /plæt/
• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophones: plait, Platte

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English plat, platte (“flat part of a sword; flat piece of ground, plot of ground”), probably a variant of Middle English plot, (modern English plot) and influenced by Middle English plat, plate (modern English plate) and Anglo-Norman, Middle French and Old French plat. See platy-, plaice, flat.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

plat (plural plats)

1. A plot of land; a lot.
2. A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
3. (obsolete) A plot, a scheme.

Derived terms

• grassplat
• platband

Translations

Verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

1. (transitive) To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map.

Translations

Etymology 2

The noun is a variant of plait.

The verb is from Middle English platte, English plat, respectively archaic past and past participle forms of English pleat (a variant of plait), Middle English platten (“to braid, weave; plait; to fold”).

Noun

plat (countable and uncountable, plural plats)

1. A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
   • c. 1806, record in the journals of Lewis and Clark, recorded in The United States Exploration Anthology (2013, →ISBN):

     they also wear a cap or cup on the head formed of beargrass and cedar bark. the men also frequently attatch^[sic] some small ornament to a small plat of hair on the center of the crown of their heads.
2. Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.

Translations

Verb

plat (third-person singular simple present plats, present participle platting, simple past and past participle platted)

1. (dated except regional England) To braid, to plait.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English plat, plate, platte (“flat; smooth; blunt, plain”), from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, and Old French plat (“(adjective) flat, level; calm; blunt, plain; (adverb) in a flat position; directly, straight; bluntly, plainly”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flat; smooth”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat; wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).

The English word is cognate with French plat, Italian piatto, Middle Dutch plat (modern Dutch plat (“flat”)), Middle High German blat, plat, Middle Low German plat (modern German platt (“flat”)), Old Danish plat (modern Danish plat), Old Occitan plat (modern Occitan plat), Old Swedish plat (modern Swedish platt); and is a doublet of flat.

Adjective

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
   • 2011, Gordon Kendall, MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations, volume 7.II: Gavin Douglas, The Aenid (1513) →ISBN, page 638:

     The whirling wheel and speedy swift axle-tree / Smat down to ground, and on the earth lay plat.

Related terms

• bureau plat

Adverb

plat (comparative more plat, superlative most plat)

1. (obsolete except Scotland) Flatly, plainly.

   Synonyms: bluntly, directly, straightforwardly

   • c. 1547‒1555, John Hooper, A Declaration of the Ten Commandments, published by the Parker Society in 1843:

     Fourth, see [that] thou hide nothing, nor dissemble, but speak plat, and plainly as much as thou knowest.

   • c. 1584‒1656, Joseph Hall:

     But single out, and say once plat and plain / That coy Matrona is a courtesan;

See also

• plat-eye (etymologically unrelated)

References

Further reading

• plat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• plat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “plat” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “plat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• PTAL, TLPA

Catalan

Etymology

Substantivization of the archaic adjective plat (“flat”), from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús). Compare French plat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈplat]

Noun

plat m (plural plats)

1. plate
2. dish

Derived terms

• platada

Related terms

• plata

References

• “plat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَلَاط (balāṭ).

Noun

plat m (collective, singulative plata f, plural platát)

1. a block of hard, white cheese made from the residue of halloumi

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 166

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat]
• Rhymes: -at

Etymology 1

From platit (“to pay”) derived from Proto-Slavic *platъ (“a piece of cloth”), as pieces of cloth were used as currency. Possibly cognate with plátno (“canvas, linen”).

Noun

plat m inan

1. salary

   Synonyms: mzda, gáže, výplata

   nástupní plat ― starting salary

   základní plat ― basic salary

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

plat

1. genitive plural of plato

References

Further reading

• plat in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• plat in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• plat in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via Middle Low German platt from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, which probably is loan from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús), a cognate of Danish flad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰl̥ad̥]

Adjective

plat (plural and definite singular attributive platte)

1. inane, lacking inspiration, corny, insipid

Inflection

Derived terms

• plathed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɑt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus.

Adjective

plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. flat

2. of soft consistency

Inflection

Derived terms

• platbranden
• plattegrond

Descendants

• Afrikaans: plat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: plati
• → Papiamentu: plat
• → Sranan Tongo: plata (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

From Platduits. Cognate to German Platt n (“dialect”).

Noun

plat n (uncountable)

1. dialect; one’s local dialect
   • 2015, Frans Kellendonk. Verzamelt werk. 2nd ed. (as e-book; original 1st ed. printed 2015), Querido, 2015 (→ISBN; preview at Google Books)

Adjective

plat (comparative platter, superlative platst)

1. dialectal; as one’s local dialect

2. (by extension) common, rural, vulgar

   een platte mop

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Indonesian: pèlat
• → Malay: pélat

Anagrams

• lapt

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla/

Adjective

plat (feminine plate, masculine plural plats, feminine plural plates)

1. flat

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Romanian: plat

Noun

plat m (plural plats)

1. a flat area of ground; a flat thing; a flat dish or receptacle
2. dish or course (e.g. served in a restaurant)

Synonyms

• mets

Derived terms

Further reading

• “plat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Gothic

Romanization

plat

1. Romanization of 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍄

Middle English

Adjective

plat

1. plat: flat; level; (by extension) frank, on the level.
   • c. 1400, John Lydgate, poem, commented upon by Thomas Gray and printed in The Works of Thomas Gray, volume 5, page 305:

Adverb

plat

1. plat: flatly, plainly

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *plattus (“flattened”).

Noun

plat oblique singular, m (oblique plural plaz or platz, nominative singular plaz or platz, nominative plural plat)

1. a footbridge

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French plat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [plat]

Adjective

plat m or n (feminine singular plată, masculine plural plați, feminine and neuter plural plate)

1. flat, level, even

Declension

Noun

plat n (plural plate)

1. level tone, first tone (in Hanyu pinyin)

Synonyms

• tonul plat

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɫat/

Noun

plat m inan (genitive singular platu, nominative plural platy, genitive plural platov, declension pattern of dub)

1. salary

   Synonym: mzda

Declension

Derived terms

• platík m
• platovo adv
• platový -á -é

Related terms

• platiť
• výplata

Further reading

• “plat”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English flat.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plat
• IPA^(key): /ˈplat/, [ˈplat]

Adjective

plat (Baybayin spelling ᜉ᜔ᜎᜆ᜔)

1. flat

   Synonym: patag

Further reading

• “plat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Source: wiktionary.org